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From: Mikhail Raskin <raskin@mccme.ru>
Subject: Re: Mass-Hardlinking Oops
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 00:01:20 +0400 (MSD)
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Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
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On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Chris Mason wrote:
>> As Yan said on IRC there's a limit to the number of hardlinks per file
>> in a given directory.  We clearly need to change this from BUG() to
>> return a nice error.
> BTW, what limit is that?
272 links. Creating 273-th link causes BUG(). The limit seems so arbitrary 
that it maybe can be made higher.. 32-bit (billions of links) seem totally 
unrestrictive..