Re: Mass-Hardlinking Oops

Chris Mason
2009-10-12T12:47:26Z

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:07:43AM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Yan, Zheng wrote:
>
> >>What is the reason for the limit, and is there any chance of increasing
> >>it to something more reasonable as Mikhail suggested?
> >
> >The limit is imposed by the format of inode back references. We can
> >get rid of the limit, but it requires a disk format change.
>
> Please do get rid of this limit, it's ridiculously small.
>
> Of course, not necessarily right now, but when you introduce some
> other changes needing disk format change, please think of removing
> the hard link limit as well.

Please keep in mind this is only a limit on the number of links to a
single file where the links and the file are all in the same directory.

-chris