On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:07:43AM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Yan, Zheng wrote: > > >>What is the reason for the limit, and is there any chance of increasing > >>it to something more reasonable as Mikhail suggested? > > > >The limit is imposed by the format of inode back references. We can > >get rid of the limit, but it requires a disk format change. > > Please do get rid of this limit, it's ridiculously small. > > Of course, not necessarily right now, but when you introduce some > other changes needing disk format change, please think of removing > the hard link limit as well.
Please keep in mind this is only a limit on the number of links to a single file where the links and the file are all in the same directory. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
