Package: lintian Severity: normal btrfs, the newest filesystem supported by Linux, includes a limitation of links to one file within one directory. This limit is, depending on the length of the filenames, something between 100 and 200 names. As dpkg makes a link as backup for every file first, the count needs to be adjusted. git is one of the packages I found problematic, see #642603).
This limit comes from the fact that the current on-disk-format needs to have all names for one file within a directory in one single tree page (usually 4KiB). There are discussions about a fix, but it requires a format change and is therefor rather low on the priority list. Maybe lintian could check for this a bit. Bastian -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-rt-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
