Re: Mass-Hardlinking Oops

Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-12T08:07:43Z

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.

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Tomasz Chmielewski