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List:       linux-btrfs
Subject:    Re: Number of hard links limit
From:       Chris Mason <chris.mason () oracle ! com>
Date:       2010-08-06 13:46:07
Message-ID: 20100806134607.GB19942 () think
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On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 02:30:39PM +0300, Sami Liedes wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:22:14AM +0200, Oystein Viggen wrote:
> > IIRC, the limit on hard links is per directory.  That is, if you put
> > each hard link into its own directory, there's basically no limit to the
> > amount of hard links you can make to one file.
> 
> Yes, that's always pointed out in these threads. Still, it seems to be
> breaking real use cases also beyond backuppc (someone mentioned
> installing some Gentoo package).

Right, this will get fixed in a future btrfs update.  We're focusing on
stability with what we have right now, but I do agree we should have
done this link back reference design differently.

-chris
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