Fill a Server

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Wed Dec 15 12:13:07 EST 2004


>> Also, my first attempt at this did a recursive copy creating subdirs in
>> dirs as it copied. It would crash everytime it went 85 subdirs deep.
>> This is an NTFS filesystem. Would this limitation be in the filesystem
>> or Python?
>
> see the "Max File Name Length" on this page (random google link)
> for an explanation:
>
>    http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm

also:

    print len(os.path.join("c:\\scratch", *map(str, range(85))))

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