Re: Mass-Hardlinking Oops

Mikhail Raskin
2009-08-03T20:01:20Z

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Chris Mason wrote:
>> 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?
272 links. Creating 273-th link causes BUG(). The limit seems so arbitrary
that it maybe can be made higher.. 32-bit (billions of links) seem totally
unrestrictive..