On Nov 3, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > My only concern would be that depth 5 isn't totally unreasonable in real life, and this causes it to silently stop searching, right? > Would there be much harm in making the limit much higher, to be fairly sure that it has wandered off into the weeds? Agreed, the kernel currently uses a limit of 8. And we should use a #define for this in lib/ext2fs/ext2fsP.h, and use it for both finddev.c and lib/ext2fs/namei.c. -- Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html