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List:       linux-btrfs
Subject:    Re: Number of hard links limit
From:       Roberto Ragusa <mail () robertoragusa ! it>
Date:       2010-08-02 20:43:08
Message-ID: 4C572DDC.5050108 () robertoragusa ! it
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Michael Niederle wrote:
>> 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.

That means it would not work for my backup server.
At 4 backups per day, failure for filenames with 45 characters after just
one year.

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