From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit? Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:06:01 +0000 Message-ID: <20060212180601.GU27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <43ED5A7B.7040908@tlinx.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linux-Kernel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:59319 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750826AbWBLSGD (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:06:03 -0500 To: Linda Walsh Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43ED5A7B.7040908@tlinx.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:31:07PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: > The maximum number of followed symlinks seems to be set to 5. > > This seems small when compared to other filesystem limits. > Is there some objection to it being raised? Should it be > something like Glib's '20' or '255'? 20 or 255 - not feasible (we'll get stack overflow from hell). 8 - probably can be switched already; anybody who hadn't converted their fs ->follow_link() to new model will just lose; in-tree instances are already OK with that and out-of-tree folks had at least half a year of warning. Unless anybody yells right now, I'm switching it to 8 in post-2.6.16.