On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:01:59 +0100, Martin Natano wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 06:31:00AM -0700, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> > 
> > I was concerned about old 4.2/4.3 filesystems having garbage in
> > that location.  It's not really an issue since we'll never really
> > encounter such a file system that was not created by our own newfs
> > (which will zero it on the disk).
> > 
> > Since fs_maxsymlinklen should be ignored for the old inode format
> > we could do something like this just to be safe.
> 
> Yeah, I think that's a good idea; updated diff below.

Looks good to me.

 - todd

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