Re: is there a fix for "Too many levels of symbolic links"

>  
> It used to be claimed that since the name resolution was done with a recursive
> algorithm, there was concern about using more kernel stack space.  But
> I believe the recursive algorithm has been removed.  Just the prohibition 
> for a nesting level greater than 5 remains.

this is not correct; the stack concerns are still very much real since
it's still done recursive. ext3 doesn't care too much, NFS is worse and
some external filesystems are way worse stack usage wise.

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