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.
Cheers
Seth
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