path length limit on DVD vs CD ?

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Mad Scientist Jr

when burning a data CD, you always had to be careful about not having
directories that went too deep or had names that were too long. the
max length of the path could never be > 64 characters or so. does this
limit apply to data DVD-Rs as well?
 
There are no such limits for CD or DVD. There are limits for ISO (64, more
with joliet) and UDF (256+) formats.
 
Here are the limits:

format namemax pathmax
ISO lev 2 31/35 8 dirs
ISO+Joliet 64/110 8 dirs
UDF 255 1023
 
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