From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roberto Ragusa Subject: Re: Number of hard links limit Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:32:43 +0200 Message-ID: <4C5EA3EB.802@robertoragusa.it> References: <20100802114046.GA29926@lh.kyla.fi> <20100802130556.GF30325@jeru.org> <4ad406cb8ee6c52747b67b4c79a6d7dd@smtp.arbitraryconstant.com> <20100802215647.7466601d@simplux> <4C572DDC.5050108@robertoragusa.it> <0362zshcyx.fsf@msgid.viggen.net> <20100806113039.GA18858@lh.kyla.fi> <20100806134607.GB19942@think> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100806134607.GB19942@think> List-ID: Chris Mason wrote: > 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. I think people are complaining about this (apparently not too urgent) limitation, because if the on-disk format has to be changed, it is better to think about it as soon as possible, before back-compatibility becomes an issue. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it