From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shyam Prasad N Subject: Re: hard links Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:03:44 +0530 Message-ID: <4F7CA218.5070902@gmail.com> References: <4F7C78FE.2020508@arndnet.de> Reply-To: nspmangalore@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Arnd Hannemann Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4F7C78FE.2020508@arndnet.de> List-ID: On 04/04/2012 10:08 PM, Arnd Hannemann wrote: > Hi, > > today I experimented with hard links on btrfs and by this used all available inode space of a file. > Interestingly if this happens even a rename of such an filename to an _equal length_ filename > fails: > > arnd@kallisto:/mnt/btrfs/tmp$ mv a b > mv: cannot move `a' to `b': Too many links > > Is this expected behavior? > There should be no reason to let this particular case fail? > > Best regards, > Arnd > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Hi Arnd, What do you mean by 'used all available inode space'? What did you do exactly? Thanks, Shyam