From Windows 7 filesystem to FreeBSD

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mastermax

Hello.

I want to migrate from the Windows 7 desktop to a fbsd FreeBSD desktop. I have a big collection of ebooks on my NTFS 2 TB USB disk, and I often get errors like "file name is too long" (roughly translated from Russian). I am really pissed off and fed up with this crap. So, I'm thinking about installing FreeBSD as my desktop OS, but I wanted to be sure before I do it, does freebsd FreeBSD's file system have better long file names support or will I encounter similar errors with it?
 
The big difference is that Windows has a 255 character limit for the entire path, not just the filename*. As I understand it, there's no real limit to the actual path length inherent to the file system on FreeBSD with either UFS or ZFS.

Individual applications may vary.


edit:
* on further review, it looks like the NTFS files ystem doesn't have that limit but most Windows applications seem to. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
 
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