Hi Charles
> Yes you certainly can do that if you wish.
>
> The rest of the space in the header is used for extended attributes. If you
> expand the symlink alias then it will just eat into that a bit.
>
> btw: Just for my education... How big do you want to make it? Where are you
> needing such long symlinks.
>
Well, Google adds a new test case in the latest CTS which checks long
paths handling and assumes alias max len of 1K.
I have doubts about sense of this test case, and it's not a solution
just to extend the alias size.
However, why not to use the space which is not use to support aliases
up to 1k
/Waldek
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