I'm using btrfs with a kernel 2.6.32.2 (builtin) as the root file system of a Gentoo Linux installation.
While attempting to install the plt-scheme package a strange error about link counts occurred ([Error 31] Too many Links). I was able to create a simple scenario to reproduce the error: Create an empty directory and run the following script within the directory: #!/bin/bash echo "abc" >.tab-snip-class_scrbl.dep._portage_merge_.9766 for x in $(seq 80) do echo $x; ln .tab-snip-class_scrbl.dep._portage_merge_.9766 \ .tab-snip-class_scrbl.dep._portage_merge_.9766.$x; done (The names are taken from the original Gentoo package.) When I run this script the first 66 links are created properly. All further link creations fail: ... 63 64 65 66 67 ln: creating hard link to `.tab-snip-class_scrbl.dep._portage_merge_.9766': Too many links 68 ln: creating hard link to `.tab-snip-class_scrbl.dep._portage_merge_.9766': Too many links 69 ln: creating hard link to `.tab-snip-class_scrbl.dep._portage_merge_.9766': Too many links 70 ln: creating hard link to `.tab-snip-class_scrbl.dep._portage_merge_.9766': Too many links ... I was able to reproduce the bug independently on two different machines. During earlier tests I determined that filename length has an effect as well as the link count. Greetings, Michael -- 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
