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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:33:48 +0100
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On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 02:57:07PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> I'd be happy if symlink recursion was removed completely, but so far the
> added symlink recursion limit hasn't been a problem for Lustre users.

Well, it's gone in my tree; I've just pushed the current queue to
vfs.git#link_path_walk.  Right now I'm looking at the unholy mess
gcc does to stack footprint with inlining - the last commit in there
is a result of exactly that.  Inlines in there really need tuning ;-/