[dba-Tech] Long Directory names on a CD-ROM

I was just wondering if any anyone has had problems storing data to 
CD-ROM's  with long directory and filenames like
"c:\documents\academic\texts\journal articles\in progress...[etc 
etc]..\my new article.doc".
I know that Microsoft uses the Joliet format which is the ISO-9660 
level-3 with extensions.
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 This has the following limits.
On Joliet compliant media, however,
 the length of a directory identifier shall not exceed 128, to allow for 
longer directory identifiers.
 the length of a filename identifier shall not exceed 128

Joliet compliant media shall comply with the remainder of ISO 9660 
Section 6.8.2.1, so that for each file recorded, the sum of the 
following shall not exceed 240:

the length of the file identifier;
the length of the directory identifiers of all relevant directories;
the number of relevant directories.
The above lengths shall be expressed as a number of bytes.
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The articles on Microsoft does not explicitly explain if this is unicode 
lengths or not..
or not . Has anyone seen any articles explaining this or its 
ramifications for CD storage.?
Or anyway around this limit for CD storage with Joliet because otherwise 
the total file names
are truncated.

I know there is a UDF format based on ISO/IEC 13346 (which is closely 
related to ECMA-167)
but this writes in packets and requires specialized drivers.
I have heard of  a Mount Rainier format for CD's that maybe incorporated 
in future MS OSes
I have even heard of  BlueRay from phillips with error correction and 25 
Gb formats
but I an stuck with Joliet for archiving at present.