On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:09:44 +0100 Goffredo Baroncelli <kreij...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 24 January 2010, Michael Niederle wrote: > > 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). > > See this thread: > > Mass-Hardlinking Oops - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file- > systems.btrfs/3427 > > There is a limit of the number of hardlink for a file. The maximum number of > the link depends by name length. Honestly, this dependency is braindead. How do the fs authors think an application programmer should judge how many hardlinks are possible for a certain fs ? This is a really bad design issue. Are we really in year 2010 ? > BR > Goffredo -- Regards, Stephan -- 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
