> :PR 12634 mentions the increase of MAXSYMLINKS (src/sys/sys/param.h) to
> :64.
> :
> :Any opinions?
> :
> :Nick
> :http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=12634
>
> Wellll.... 32 really ought to be enough. Looking at your PR I think
It's not my PR. I am just asking for opinions on his proposal.
> you are decoupling your directories a little too much and should
> perhaps reduce the number of symlinks you use. For example,
> instead of having /public -> site/public -> domain/public -> this/public
> -> jhs.no_domain why not simply have /public be a symlink to
> /site/domain/this/public ?
>
> While increasing the number would not hurt except, as you say, when
> dealing with loops, I would hate to change it based on this particular
> setup because I think this setup could be optimized considerably to
> get well under the current limit of 32.
That was what I thought as well. You probably end up drowning the NFS
server in stat()-s I guess. Other envvironments, single machine
environments, it's bad design.
Cheers,
Nick
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