diff --git a/why-linux-is-better.txt b/why-linux-is-better.txt index 3eef4de..5b76cac 100644 --- a/why-linux-is-better.txt +++ b/why-linux-is-better.txt @@ -7,11 +7,15 @@ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681827%28VS.85%29.aspx#limits http://stackoverflow.com/questions/265769/maximum-filename-length-in-ntfs-windows-xp-and-windows-vista http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1065993/has-windows-7-fixed-the-255-character-file-path-limit http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/11/filesystem-paths-how-long-is-too-long.html +http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/archive/2007/02/13/long-paths-in-net-part-1-of-3-kim-hamilton.aspx + +-- Does this cause real problems in real software? Yes. +https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/6960 -- No built-in support for any filesystems but NTFS and FAT32/FAT16. -- Ease of bug reporting and logging. -On Windows, you can Ctrl-C when a error window pops up to copy the error message. +On Windows, you can (sometimes) use Ctrl-C when an error window pops up to copy the error message. On Linux, you can attach gdb to a running process, start a logfile that catches all output to stderr, and run a backtrace when the program fails. -- NTFS on Windows cannot be case sensitive because Windows is not case sensitive, though it is case-preserving