From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, sliedes@cc.hut.fi
Subject: Re: Number of hard links limit
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 09:46:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100806134607.GB19942@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100806113039.GA18858@lh.kyla.fi>
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 02:30:39PM +0300, Sami Liedes wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:22:14AM +0200, Oystein Viggen wrote:
> > IIRC, the limit on hard links is per directory. That is, if you put
> > each hard link into its own directory, there's basically no limit to the
> > amount of hard links you can make to one file.
>
> Yes, that's always pointed out in these threads. Still, it seems to be
> breaking real use cases also beyond backuppc (someone mentioned
> installing some Gentoo package).
Right, this will get fixed in a future btrfs update. We're focusing on
stability with what we have right now, but I do agree we should have
done this link back reference design differently.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-06 13:46 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
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 [this message]
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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