On Mon, 04 Dec 2023, Cedric Blancher wrote: > Good evening! > > Does NFSv4/v4.1 have a limit similar to PATH_MAX? What about > symlinks/reparse points? Is there no limit, or is the limit > configurable, or is the limit >= 4096? See: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5661 There is no explicit limit. The local filesystem on the server might impose a limit, but the protocol itself does not. The protocol *does* declare that a symlink is valid UTF-8. Linux doesn't enforce this. This might sometimes cause confusion. But the length should not. NeilBrown > > Ced > -- > Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@xxxxxxxxx> > [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CedricBlancher/] > Institute Pasteur > >
