Re: Mass-Hardlinking Oops

jim owens
2009-10-12T16:16:39Z

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
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