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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
