From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Cloos Subject: Re: BTRFS should increase the hard-link in the same directory limit Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:05:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874o1aztkm.fsf-genuine-vii@john.fremlin.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: John Fremlin To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <874o1aztkm.fsf-genuine-vii@john.fremlin.org> (John Fremlin's message of "Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:13:13 +0100") List-ID: >>>>> "JF" == John Fremlin writes: JF> instead of creating a separate inode for each marked message, uses a JF> hardlink to a single markfile. This means that there maybe thousands JF> of hardlinks to the same inode in a single directory. And that behaviour is not limited to gnus. Many workflows use that idiom. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6