Seth Mos wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Andrew Ho wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > In my system (redhat 7.2), if I boot the computer up to
> > 2.4.9-13SGI_XFS_1.0.2smp kernel, even the directory is
> > symbolic linked for 5 times from one mounted drive to another
> > mounted drive, the files are visible in this symbolic linked
> > directory.
> >
> > With the kernel which are 2.4.17, 2.4.18, the error message
> > was "Too many levels of symbolic links". Even 2.4.19 with
> > linux/fs/xfs/linux/xfs_iops.c - 1.173 update, I receive the
> > same error message.
>
> AFAIK that behaviour was "fixed" in the mainline kernel and thus XFS
> automatically follows that behaviour. They originally created this to make
> sure you can not loop through symlinks endlessly.
>
> I think that searching for patches about this on lkml might show you how
> to change this limit. I do not know the current limit for recursive
> symlinks.
>
It is not the problem of the limit. I use the same machine with
different
kernel as I mentioned. I believe that it is the problem of the kernel
codes.
Will it be the VFS, hard link problems, etc ...
Thanks,
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