From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: "Yan, Zheng " <yanzheng@21cn.com>
Cc: "Pär Andersson" <paran@lysator.liu.se>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mass-Hardlinking Oops
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:07:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD2E3CF.6080701@wpkg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d0408630910111543t23bdf6c3u2274efc65f0fe06c@mail.gmail.com>
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.
--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-12 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-01 13:16 Mass-Hardlinking Oops Raskin Michael
2009-08-03 14:57 ` Chris Mason
2009-08-03 15:00 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-08-03 20:01 ` Mikhail Raskin
2009-10-11 15:05 ` Pär Andersson
2009-10-11 22:43 ` Yan, Zheng
2009-10-12 8:07 ` Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2009-10-12 12:47 ` Chris Mason
2009-10-13 7:07 ` Florian Weimer
2009-10-13 7:28 ` Yan, Zheng
2009-10-14 0:29 ` Matteo Frigo
2009-10-15 17:55 ` Tracy Reed
2009-10-15 18:27 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-15 19:15 ` Oystein Viggen
2009-10-16 22:17 ` Pär Andersson
2009-10-12 16:16 ` jim owens
2009-10-12 17:09 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2009-10-12 18:07 ` jim owens
2009-10-12 17:42 ` John Dong
2009-10-12 18:17 ` jim owens
2009-10-12 20:04 ` Chris Mason
2009-10-12 21:51 ` berk walker
2009-10-13 0:31 ` Claudio Martins
2009-10-13 3:42 ` Anthony Roberts
2009-10-13 9:08 ` Brian Brunswick
2009-10-13 17:45 ` Zach Brown
2009-10-13 20:03 ` Chris Mason
2009-10-13 20:55 ` Zach Brown
2009-10-12 20:50 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
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