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From: "Michael Niederle" <mniederle@gmx.at>
Subject: Re: Number of hard links limit
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 21:56:47 +0200
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> Also, I believe it's not strictly 256 links, it's dependent on the length
> of the names.
> 
> I recall Chris posting something about being able to fix this without a
> format change, though it wasn't a priority yet.

As to my knowledge the limit is 64KB for all names of a single file and due to
Chris it will take a format change to fix this.

I ran into the limit some month ago while installing some Gentoo packages.

Greetings, Michael