On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:04:32PM +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > 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 ?
Yes, this was a design trade off to maintain the back links for the file. Keep in mind the limit is only per-directory, as long as you're working between different directories you can have any many back links as you want. But, it's on the list to get fixed once raid5/6 are out of the way. -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
