[MESOS-7371] Investigate enabling NTFS long path support automatically

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: stout
• Labels: windows
• External issue URL: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx
• Epic Link: windows
• Assignee: Andrew Schwartzmeyer
• Reporter: Andrew Schwartzmeyer
• Shepherd: Joseph Wu
• Created: 07/Apr/17 19:13
• Updated: 11/Jul/17 05:59
• Resolved: 11/Jul/17 05:59

Description

MSDN seems to imply that it's possible to enable the NTFS long path support for each process, without the user having to do it manually. This should be investigated (perhaps it's done during installation).

Issue Links

• blocks: MESOS-7407 Windows 10 Creators Update broke opt-in NTFS long path support
• relates to: MESOS-5849 Agent sandboxes on Windows surpass the 260 character path length limit