On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:43:02 +, Andrew Gideon wrote:
I've thought of two solutions: (1) deliberating breaking linking (and
therefore wasting disk space) or (2) using a different file system.
This is running on CentOS 5, so xfs was there to be tried. I've had
positive experiences with
We do backups using rsync --link-dest. On one of our volumes, we just
hit a limit in ext3 which generated the error:
rsync: link ... = ... failed: Too many links (31)
This appears to be related to a limit in the number of directory entries
to which an inode may be connected. In other words
