Hi Konstantin,

On Sun, July 29, 2012 at 21:02 (+0200), Konstantin Dmitriev 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...

Please give the patch set "btrfs: extended inode refs" by Mark Fasheh a try
(http://lwn.net/Articles/498226/). It eliminates the hard links per directory
limit (introducing a rather random, artificial limit of 64k instead).

-Jan
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