E. Liddell wrote:

> I believe the limit is the length of the path in bytes, which will vary
> according to what filesystem you're using, how your kernel is configured,
> etc.

It depends what Baron means. The depth in the classical sense is the number
of nodes you can create in one directory, which is (AFAIR) positive integer
32767.

For the length of the path field, I am not sure - perhaps 4096 - just my
guess now.

regards