Matteo Frigo ath...@fftw.org writes:
For the record, the nnmaildir mail backend in Gnus (an Emacs package
for reading news and email) creates multiple hardlinks to the same
file in the same directory. I had several thousands hardlinks at one
time.
Gnus with nnmaildir is what I use. I wanted
* [Tracy Reed]
clever indeed. It creates filesystems with zillions of inodes which
are a pain to work with. This is the sort of large storage application
I would be looking to use btrfs for and apparently the currently
implementation would croak.
As I understand it, the current
* Chris Mason:
Of course, not necessarily right now, but when you introduce some
other changes needing disk format change, please think of removing
the hard link limit as well.
Please keep in mind this is only a limit on the number of links to a
single file where the links and the file are
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Florian Weimer fwei...@bfk.de wrote:
* Chris Mason:
Of course, not necessarily right now, but when you introduce some
other changes needing disk format change, please think of removing
the hard link limit as well.
Please keep in mind this is only a limit on
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:45:43AM -0700, Zach Brown wrote:
this thread. I get EMLINK when trying to create more than 311 (not 272)
links in a directory
what real-world application uses and needs this many hard links?
I don't think that's a good counterargument for why this is not a
Yan, Zheng wrote:
What is the reason for the limit, and is there any chance of increasing
it to something more reasonable as Mikhail suggested?
The limit is imposed by the format of inode back references. We can
get rid of the limit, but it requires a disk format change.
Please do get rid
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:07:43AM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
Yan, Zheng wrote:
What is the reason for the limit, and is there any chance of increasing
it to something more reasonable as Mikhail suggested?
The limit is imposed by the format of inode back references. We can
get rid
On Monday 12 October 2009, jim owens wrote:
Pär Andersson wrote:
I just ran into the max hard link per directory limit, and remembered
this thread. I get EMLINK when trying to create more than 311 (not 272)
links in a directory, so at least the BUG() is fixed.
What is the reason for
On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:16 PM, jim owens wrote:
Pär Andersson wrote:
I just ran into the max hard link per directory limit, and remembered
this thread. I get EMLINK when trying to create more than 311 (not
272)
links in a directory, so at least the BUG() is fixed.
What is the reason for the
Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
I don't know a software which need so many hard links. But it easy to find
some similar cases.
For example under my /usr/bin I have 478 _soft links_ to _different_
files.
Hard link is not used in place of soft link... soft link is
a different and preferred
jim owens wrote:
Pär Andersson wrote:
I just ran into the max hard link per directory limit, and remembered
this thread. I get EMLINK when trying to create more than 311 (not 272)
links in a directory, so at least the BUG() is fixed.
What is the reason for the limit, and is there any chance of
I believe one hard-link should be the maximum.
berk
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Mikhail Raskin ras...@mccme.ru writes:
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
BTW, what limit is that?
272 links. Creating 273-th link causes BUG(). The limit seems so
arbitrary that it maybe can be made higher.. 32-bit (billions of
links) seem totally unrestrictive..
I just ran
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Pär Andersson pa...@lysator.liu.se wrote:
Mikhail Raskin ras...@mccme.ru writes:
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
BTW, what limit is that?
272 links. Creating 273-th link causes BUG(). The limit seems so
arbitrary that it maybe can be made
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 05:16:11PM +0400, Raskin Michael wrote:
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This is distinct from the old mass-symlinking warnings. I run a program
which promised to hardlink all the same-content files on the partition.
The failure occured reasonably
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
Chris Mason wrote:
As Yan said on IRC there's a limit to the number of hardlinks per file
in a given directory. We clearly need to change this from BUG() to
return a nice error.
BTW, what limit is that?
272 links. Creating 273-th link causes
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This is distinct from the old mass-symlinking warnings. I run a program
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The failure occured reasonably quickly...
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