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.
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