On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Konstantin Dmitriev
<ksee.zelga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dipl.-Ing. Michael Niederle <mniederle <at> gmx.at> writes:
>
>> I reinstalled over 700 packages - plt-scheme beeing the only one failing due 
>> to
>> the btrfs link restriction.
>>
>
> I have hit the same issue - tried to run BackupPC with a pool on btrfs
> filesystem. After some time the error of "too many links (31)" appeared to me.
> Now I'm forced to migrate to some other filesystem...

btrfs only fails when you have hundreds of hardlinks to the same file
in the *same* directory ... certainly not a standard use case.

use snapshots to your advantage:
 - snap source
 - rsync --inplace source to target (with some other opts that have
been discussed on list)
 - snap target
 - {rinse-and-repeat-in-24-hrs}

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C Anthony
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