From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Cc: "Yan, Zheng " <yanzheng@21cn.com>,
"Pär Andersson" <paran@lysator.liu.se>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mass-Hardlinking Oops
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:47:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091012124726.GL2632@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AD2E3CF.6080701@wpkg.org>
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:07:43AM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Yan, Zheng wrote:
>
> >>What is the reason for the limit, and is there any chance of increasing
> >>it to something more reasonable as Mikhail suggested?
> >
> >The limit is imposed by the format of inode back references. We can
> >get rid of the limit, but it requires a disk format change.
>
> Please do get rid of this limit, it's ridiculously small.
>
> Of course, not necessarily right now, but when you introduce some
> other changes needing disk format change, please think of removing
> the hard link limit as well.
Please keep in mind this is only a limit on the number of links to a
single file where the links and the file are all in the same directory.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-12 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-01 13:16 Mass-Hardlinking Oops Raskin Michael
2009-08-03 14:57 ` Chris Mason
2009-08-03 15:00 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-08-03 20:01 ` Mikhail Raskin
2009-10-11 15:05 ` Pär Andersson
2009-10-11 22:43 ` Yan, Zheng
2009-10-12 8:07 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-12 12:47 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2009-10-13 7:07 ` Florian Weimer
2009-10-13 7:28 ` Yan, Zheng
2009-10-14 0:29 ` Matteo Frigo
2009-10-15 17:55 ` Tracy Reed
2009-10-15 18:27 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-15 19:15 ` Oystein Viggen
2009-10-16 22:17 ` Pär Andersson
2009-10-12 16:16 ` jim owens
2009-10-12 17:09 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2009-10-12 18:07 ` jim owens
2009-10-12 17:42 ` John Dong
2009-10-12 18:17 ` jim owens
2009-10-12 20:04 ` Chris Mason
2009-10-12 21:51 ` berk walker
2009-10-13 0:31 ` Claudio Martins
2009-10-13 3:42 ` Anthony Roberts
2009-10-13 9:08 ` Brian Brunswick
2009-10-13 17:45 ` Zach Brown
2009-10-13 20:03 ` Chris Mason
2009-10-13 20:55 ` Zach Brown
2009-10-12 20:50 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
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