On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 04:40, Steve French wrote:
> MAX_NESTED_LINKS seems to have been set to 5, but the comment in
> fs/namei.c indicates a larger number.  Is that intentional?

yes for now; 8 overflowed stacks on several architectures.
Al Viro has a patch series is finalizing getting that merged that makes
it safe to use 8 again.