Can not trash files with name length more than 246 characters

[bughunter]

The maximum file name size is 256 characters in Linux. I think, this is a bug in itself, see how I discovered it this limit of the system: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359531

I read on the net, that someone had the problem copying UTF characters from NTFS to Ext3, but hopefully this works by now fine.

And the recent bug: make a file with name length more than 246 character, and try to trash it with Gnome. You can't because in the trash it gets an additional .trashinfo extension -- not enough space for that.

Try trash this:

$ touch 1___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________256

(For trashing open the container folder: Places and the first item. You find this file here after the previous command.)

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

The filename length restriction is a limit of the kernel. Read this thread to understand why increasing this would be a lot of work, and break lots of stuff: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-ext4/2008/11/21/4189464

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Confirmed in Trusty but Won't Fix as per https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/360219/comments/1 . The archived discussion is now found at http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg10172.html .