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 -- 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