Re: Mass-Hardlinking Oops

Zach Brown
2009-10-13T17:45:43Z

>>> this thread. I get EMLINK when trying to create more than 311 (not 272)
>>> links in a directory
>>
>> what real-world application uses and needs this many hard links?
>
> I don't think that's a good counterargument for why this is not a bug.

I strongly agree. Our ignorance of users operating inside existing
limits of existing file systems shouldn't justify tightening those limits.

Sure, this is a weird corner case. But given how early btrfs is in the
deployment stage, it seems worth changing the format to get rid of this
risk of teaching people to question their expectation that btrfs will
just work in environments that previous linux file systems worked in.

- z