Holger Parplies wrote at about 19:34:27 +0200 on Monday, August 8, 2011:
> Hi,
>
> as Jeffrey said, we'll need meaningful information to give meaningful
> answers.
Oh my goodness, did Holger Top Quote????? say it isn't so :P
> One thing I can answer, though:
>
> friedmann wrote on 2011-08-08 09:19:51 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Too many
> links : where is the problem ?]:
> > [...]
> > the backup machine is 32bits, ubuntu 10.04.1, operating on ext3 partitions
> > :
> > What is then the maximum value for this parameter ?
>
> figure it out for yourself:
>
> % # go to a directory on the partition you are interested in, make sure
> you have write access
> % mkdir linktest
> % cd linktest
> % touch 1
> % perl -e 'for (my $i = 2; ; $i ++) { link "1", $i or die "Cant create
> ${i}th link: $!\n"; }'
>
> (this answer is also valid for any other (UNIX type) OS/FS).
>
FYI, On 32-bit Fedora 12/Linux 2.6.32:
Ext2/3: MAX=32000
Ext4: MAX=65000
This presumably should be true more generally for any relatively
non-ancient & unhacked version of Linux...
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