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Date:      Sat, 24 Jul 1999 19:19:10 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD current mailing list <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: PR 12634
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990724191643.13312H-100000@elect8>
In-Reply-To: <199907241714.KAA35602@apollo.backplane.com>

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 > :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
-- 
ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy




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