From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Subject: Re: Mass-Hardlinking Oops
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:00:08 +0200
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To: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
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Chris Mason wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 05:16:11PM +0400, Raskin Michael wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
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>> This is distinct from the old mass-symlinking warnings. I run a program
>> which promised to hardlink all the same-content files on the partition.
>> The failure occured reasonably quickly...
> 
> As Yan said on IRC there's a limit to the number of hardlinks per file
> in a given directory.  We clearly need to change this from BUG() to
> return a nice error.

BTW, what limit is that?


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