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From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, mniederle@gmx.at
Subject: Re: severe hardlink bug
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:04:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100124120432.41bd9b2d.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001240909.44753.kreijack@libero.it>

On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:09:44 +0100
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 24 January 2010, Michael Niederle wrote:
> > I'm using btrfs with a kernel 2.6.32.2 (builtin) as the root file system of 
> a
> > Gentoo Linux installation.
> > 
> > While attempting to install the plt-scheme package a strange error about 
> link
> > counts occurred ([Error 31] Too many Links).
> 
> See this thread:
> 
> Mass-Hardlinking Oops - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-
> systems.btrfs/3427
> 
> There is a limit of the number of hardlink for a file. The maximum number of 
> the link depends by  name length.

Honestly, this dependency is braindead. How do the fs authors think an
application programmer should judge how many hardlinks are possible for a
certain fs ? This is a really bad design issue. Are we really in year 2010 ?

> BR
> Goffredo

-- 
Regards,
Stephan


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-24 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-24  0:51 severe hardlink bug Michael Niederle
2010-01-24  8:09 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-01-24 11:04   ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
2010-01-25 15:45     ` Chris Mason
2010-01-24 13:08   ` Dipl.-Ing. Michael Niederle
2010-01-24 13:15     ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-01-24 13:27       ` Dipl.-Ing. Michael Niederle
2012-07-29 19:02         ` Konstantin Dmitriev
2012-07-29 19:13           ` C Anthony Risinger
2012-07-29 19:57             ` Konstantin Dmitriev
2012-07-30  9:36             ` Arnd Hannemann
2012-07-30  9:56               ` C Anthony Risinger
2012-07-30  9:59               ` Helmut Hullen
2012-07-30  8:46           ` Jan Schmidt
2012-08-08  6:37             ` Konstantin Dmitriev
2012-08-08 11:35               ` Chris Samuel
2012-07-30 17:38 ` Martin Steigerwald

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