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From: jim owens <jowens@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Mass-Hardlinking Oops
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:17:11 -0400
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John Dong wrote:
> 
> I don't think that's a good counterargument for why this is not a bug.

it is not a "bug".  hard links are not a required feature of all
filesystems nor is a defined large number required for those with
hard links.

> Can't think of any off the top of my head for Linux, but definitely in 
> OS X Time Machine can easily create 200+ hardlinks.

so 311 is 50% than the app uses... plenty of growth.

jim