From: "Michael Niederle" <mniederle@gmx.at>
To: Anthony Roberts <btrfs-devel@arbitraryconstant.com>
Cc: <nicollet@jeru.org>, <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
<cbarratt@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Number of hard links limit
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 21:56:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100802215647.7466601d@simplux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ad406cb8ee6c52747b67b4c79a6d7dd@smtp.arbitraryconstant.com>
> Also, I believe it's not strictly 256 links, it's dependent on the length
> of the names.
>
> I recall Chris posting something about being able to fix this without a
> format change, though it wasn't a priority yet.
As to my knowledge the limit is 64KB for all names of a single file and due to
Chris it will take a format change to fix this.
I ran into the limit some month ago while installing some Gentoo packages.
Greetings, Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-02 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-02 11:40 Number of hard links limit Sami Liedes
2010-08-02 13:05 ` Xavier Nicollet
2010-08-02 18:31 ` Anthony Roberts
2010-08-02 19:56 ` Michael Niederle [this message]
2010-08-02 20:43 ` Roberto Ragusa
2010-08-02 22:22 ` Oystein Viggen
2010-08-06 11:30 ` Sami Liedes
2010-08-06 13:46 ` Chris Mason
2010-08-08 12:32 ` Roberto Ragusa
2011-10-12 17:34 ` Martin Steigerwald
2011-11-08 21:23 ` Sami Liedes
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