Re: NFS & long symlinks = stack overflow

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 12:27:10 EST


On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 09:53, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> Lovely. The real limit imposed by client (apparently not enforced, though)
> is PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 4 - 1. What are the protocol limits? I've been looking
> into the same area for other reasons just now and all I could find was NFS v2
> "no more than 1024 bytes", no information on v3 or v4.

NFSv3 and v4 have no set limits on the link length other than that
enforced by the server.

Cheers,
Trond
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