From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jim owens Subject: Re: Mass-Hardlinking Oops Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:16:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4AD35667.3020103@hp.com> References: <4A74401B.90801@mccme.ru> <20090803145741.GC3765@think> <4A76FB78.5000207@wpkg.org> <20090803235920.C13173@mccme.ru> <87my3y3r8u.fsf@faran.nsc.liu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: =?UTF-8?B?UMOkciBBbmRlcnNzb24=?= Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87my3y3r8u.fsf@faran.nsc.liu.se> List-ID: P=C3=A4r Andersson wrote: > I just ran into the max hard link per directory limit, and remembered > this thread. I get EMLINK when trying to create more than 311 (not 27= 2) > links in a directory, so at least the BUG() is fixed. >=20 > What is the reason for the limit, and is there any chance of increasi= ng > it to something more reasonable as Mikhail suggested? >=20 > For comparison I tried to create 200k hardlinks to the the same file = in > the same directory on btrfs, ext4, reiserfs and xfs: what real-world application uses and needs this many hard links? jim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html