Validation of Pod, filename, and directory names

[IgorShadurin]

Hi there,

I have a question regarding the naming conventions for pods, directories, and files within the project. I am wondering what attributes should be considered when determining the name, maximum size, and allowed characters for these items. Additionally, I am curious about the maximum nesting of directories and files.

As far as I understand, it is important that these naming conventions be compatible with popular operating systems. Is there a standard that covers these requirements?

Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

@nugaon @tfius @molekilla @crtahlin @asabya

[crtahlin]

@asabya any kind of limits stem from FUSE compatilibity, to work on all OSes?

[tfius]

so there is a posix naming checking like https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=locales-posix-portable-file-name-character-set

to my understaning https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/669761/how-to-understand-the-naming-convention-of-ieee-standards
this is the thing

with answers here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41898391/naming-convention-for-posix-flags#:~:text=Long%20options%20consist%20of%20'%2D%2D,convention%3B%20camel%20case%20does%20not.

while we should also take into consideration https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap12.html

[tfius]

basically we are fucked... and we should take the best of them all, most versatile, break things and make them as they should be

[asabya]

Simply put, file or folder names can have these character sets

Uppercase A to Z
Lowercase a to z
Numbers 0 to 9
Period (.)
Underscore (_)
Hyphen (-)

taken from here.

We follow / on POSIX for path separator.