On Sat, Jun 28, 2025, at 4:46 PM, Crystal Kolipe wrote: > > However there is, (separately), a limit to the number of links you can > have to the same inode. > > So if you're using all this to create a kind of versioning filesystem > then at least in theory it might eventually hit that limit and stop > working, (unless you take steps to prevent that).
thanks. accounting for that limit would complexify my plans excessively. i'd better use another strategy with a different filesystem. i'm thinking i'll use zfs in omnios if my hardware will support it. otherwise, either freebsd ufs with its snapshots or plan 9 cwfs because i'm familiar with it. reliability issues will be dealt with by my planned backup scheme, and initial testing indicates plan 9's O(n) directory read performance will be adequate for my usage. at worst, it'll be much faster than the ntfs under win10 in too-little ram; that's insanely slow.
