Filenaming Conventions... Will Unix Be Picky About This???

[MarciaG]

I am thinking about using FeeNAS for my network storage, but I have always used Windows and am unfamiliar with the way Unix handles file names. Some of my file names are very long... many of them have commas, mixed case, dashes, underscores... and some of them are buried very, very deep in the directory. Will Unix have a problem with any of this? I'd rather know on the front-end than find out later after I've moved everything over.

THANKS!! :)

 

[cyberjock]

I migrated a server from Windows to FreeNAS in December. I had a similar naming for files. AFAIK Unix is actually less limiting than Windows' NTFS. Do note that Windows cannot handle file+path names that are greater than 255 characters. This is NOT a limitation of NTFS, but a limitation of Windows and its internal functions. So if you tried to move a file that is >255 you will still get errors on the FreeNAS server, but the files will be there. If you were using Linux I believe your limitation is "just" 32k characters, but I haven't tested this for myself.

Unfortunately, Windows 8 still has this limitation, and I wouldn't expect it to go away anytime soon. One of the many reasons I've moved to Linux Mint and I'm enjoying every minute of it.