Re: Mass-Hardlinking Oops

Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-08-03T15:00:08Z

Chris Mason wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 05:16:11PM +0400, Raskin Michael wrote:
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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...
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> 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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Tomasz Chmielewski