From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mailout07.t-online.de ([194.25.134.83]:33031 "EHLO mailout07.t-online.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751728Ab2G3KZ1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:25:27 -0400 Date: 30 Jul 2012 11:59:00 +0200 From: Hullen@t-online.de (Helmut Hullen) To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <50165584.70707@arndnet.de> Subject: Re: severe hardlink bug MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: helmut@hullen.de Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hallo, Arnd, Du meintest am 30.07.12: >> btrfs only fails when you have hundreds of hardlinks to the same >> file in the *same* directory ... certainly not a standard use case. > Actually, "hundreds of hardlinks" is certainly over optimistic. > In my testing 15 links in the same directory were enough to get > the "Too many links" error. It depends on the length of the file > name of the hardlinks. And then I may get problems with my favourite backup program "rsnapshot"; it uses hard links, and my backups often have more than 20 hard links to 1 file. Sometimes about 80 characters long. Viele Gruesse! Helmut