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So, max path length in Linux user space will be about 215 chars? (for it to be accessible from Windows user space)

MAX_PATH in Windows = 260

Path to Linux file system root from Windows user space:

"C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Lxss\rootfs\" - about 45 chars

Max depth reachable from Windows user space = 260 - 45 = 215

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The NTFS limit is 32768 wchars, though the standard Win32 API doesn't really expose it very well... fingers crossed they used it!

Its details like this that will make or break this.

I'm pretty sure I saw something in one of the articles that mentions they explicitly use the extended \\?\ form of paths, which gets around the 255 character path limit.

Just to verify, watched a video that explicitly said that it does get around the path limit (though if you then go look at those files in explorer, explorer "has problems" whatever that means).... but that's just because explorer still uses the legacy APIs that do have a path limit.

Kinda bad news for node.js developers

  /home/user/dev/my-proj/node_modules/concurrently/node_modules/chalk/node_modules/has-ansi/node_modules/ansi-regex

Well the very first thing I'd do is symlink/junction point that to something like C:\Users\<User>\Linux or even C:\Linux if I feel particularly single-user.

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