On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:14, Pavel Machek wrote: > Why is this configurable? The maximum length of a pathname is an arbitrary limit: we don't want to allocate arbitrary amounts of of kernel memory for pathnames so we introduce this limit and set it to a reasonable value. In the unlikely case that someone uses insanely long pathnames, this limit can be increased. Andreas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html