From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33216 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751041Ab2HHGiF (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2012 02:38:05 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Syzu7-0003aM-46 for linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:38:03 +0200 Received: from 176.50.251.106 ([176.50.251.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:38:03 +0200 Received: from ksee.zelgadis by 176.50.251.106 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:38:03 +0200 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org From: Konstantin Dmitriev Subject: Re: severe hardlink bug Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 06:37:50 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20100124015138.092c4959@simplux> <201001240909.44753.kreijack@libero.it> <20100124140837.5efcd526@simplux> <201001241415.47519.kreijack@inwind.it> <20100124142711.4afe8a81@simplux> <501649E3.6010600@jan-o-sch.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jan Schmidt jan-o-sch.net> writes: > Please give the patch set "btrfs: extended inode refs" by Mark Fasheh a try > (http://lwn.net/Articles/498226/). It eliminates the hard links per directory > limit (introducing a rather random, artificial limit of 64k instead). Hi, Jan! I'm happy to see that there is something done on fixing that issue. Unfortunately I cannot afford to have unstable patched kernel on the production server. Probably I'll give another try to btrfs in 2013. ^__^ K.