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List:       linux-btrfs
Subject:    Re: Number of hard links limit
From:       "Michael Niederle" <mniederle () gmx ! at>
Date:       2010-08-02 19:56:47
Message-ID: 20100802215647.7466601d () simplux
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> Also, I believe it's not strictly 256 links, it's dependent on the length
> of the names.
> 
> I recall Chris posting something about being able to fix this without a
> format change, though it wasn't a priority yet.

As to my knowledge the limit is 64KB for all names of a single file and due to
Chris it will take a format change to fix this.

I ran into the limit some month ago while installing some Gentoo packages.

Greetings, Michael
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