On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:02:23 -0600 "Kristen J. Webb" <[email protected]> wrote:
> We found an AFS volume with a symbolic link of > length of 7943 bytes (from vos dump). > > Does anyone know the theoretical > maximum length for a symlink in AFS? There is a wire protocol limit of 1024 octets for a symlink target (or 1023; I'm not sure if that counts a trailing NUL). I'm not sure if there are other limitations for on-disk formats (probably no) or OS VFS layers (probably yes). As far as the volume dump format itself goes, they can probably be as long as a 32-bit signed length will hold; not that you want to actually handle them that large. > Should we consider salvaging this volume instead? It's probably not "real", yeah, unless someone was doing something strange. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
