On Wednesday 28 July 2010, Ken D'Ambrosio said: > Hello, all. I'm thinking of rolling out a BackupPC server, and -- > based on the strength of the recent Phoronix benchmarks > (http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11156&Itemid=23) > -- had been strongly considering btrfs. But I do seem to recall > that there was some sort of hardlinks-per-directory limitation, and > BackupPC *loves* hardlinks. Would someone care to either remind me > what the issue was, or reassure me that it's been rectified?
btrfs has a limit on the number of hardlinks that can exist in the same directory. I don't believe that BackupPC will create any more hardlinks in a given directory than are already in the filesystem you are backing up. It uses hardlinks between directories for files that haven't changed. David -- 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
