Hallo, Arnd,

Du meintest am 30.07.12:

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

> Actually, "hundreds of hardlinks" is certainly over optimistic.
> In my testing 15 links in the same directory were enough to get
> the "Too many links" error. It depends on the length of the file
> name of the hardlinks.

And then I may get problems with my favourite backup program  
"rsnapshot"; it uses hard links, and my backups often have more than 20  
hard links to 1 file. Sometimes about 80 characters long.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut
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