From: Hullen@t-online.de (Helmut Hullen)
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: severe hardlink bug
Date: 30 Jul 2012 11:59:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CDqX2gsuCXB@helmut.hullen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50165584.70707@arndnet.de>
Hallo, Arnd,
Du meintest am 30.07.12:
>> btrfs only fails when you have hundreds of hardlinks to the same
>> file in the *same* directory ... certainly not a standard use case.
> Actually, "hundreds of hardlinks" is certainly over optimistic.
> In my testing 15 links in the same directory were enough to get
> the "Too many links" error. It depends on the length of the file
> name of the hardlinks.
And then I may get problems with my favourite backup program
"rsnapshot"; it uses hard links, and my backups often have more than 20
hard links to 1 file. Sometimes about 80 characters long.
Viele Gruesse!
Helmut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-30 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-24 0:51 severe hardlink bug Michael Niederle
2010-01-24 8:09 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-01-24 11:04 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2010-01-25 15:45 ` Chris Mason
2010-01-24 13:08 ` Dipl.-Ing. Michael Niederle
2010-01-24 13:15 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-01-24 13:27 ` Dipl.-Ing. Michael Niederle
2012-07-29 19:02 ` Konstantin Dmitriev
2012-07-29 19:13 ` C Anthony Risinger
2012-07-29 19:57 ` Konstantin Dmitriev
2012-07-30 9:36 ` Arnd Hannemann
2012-07-30 9:56 ` C Anthony Risinger
2012-07-30 9:59 ` Helmut Hullen [this message]
2012-07-30 8:46 ` Jan Schmidt
2012-08-08 6:37 ` Konstantin Dmitriev
2012-08-08 11:35 ` Chris Samuel
2012-07-30 17:38 ` Martin Steigerwald
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