Re: BTRFS should increase the hard-link in the same directory limit

2011-08-22 Thread John Fremlin
Josef Bacik jo...@redhat.com writes: On 08/21/2011 11:13 AM, John Fremlin wrote: [...] This restriction causes btrfs-convert 0.19 to crash out with a segfault and no helpful message: something like btrfs-convert: segfault at cfb25fb9 ip 0040f9f1 sp 7fffddefb398 error 6

BTRFS should increase the hard-link in the same directory limit

2011-08-21 Thread John Fremlin
It seems a priori that there should not be any need for more than 256 names for the same file in the same directory. However, the GNUS mailreader's nnmaildir backend uses hardlinks to mark email messages read, and instead of creating a separate inode for each marked message, uses a hardlink to a