Re: [PATCH] Increase recursive symlink limit from 5 to 8

[Steve Youngs]

* Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

  >   Linux:         Symlink limit seem to be 6 path entities.
  >   AIX:           Symlink limit seem to be 21 path entities.
  >   HP-UX:         Symlink limit seem to be 21 path entities.
  >   Solaris:       Symlink limit seem to be 21 path entities.
  >   Irix:          Symlink limit seem to be 31 path entities.
  >   Mac OS X:      Symlink limit seem to be 33 path entities.
  >   Tru64 Unix:    Symlink limit seem to be 65 path entities.

  > I really think this limit should be increased in Linux.  Not sure
  > how high it should go, but from 5 to somewhere between 20 and 64
  > seem like a good idea to me.

6 does seem pretty low.  What was the reason for setting it there?  Is
there a downside to increasing it?

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