Re: Will big metadata blocks fix # of hardlinks?

2012-05-29 Thread Martin
Thanks for noting this one. That is one very surprising and unexpected limit!... And a killer for some not completely rare applications... On 26/05/12 19:22, Sami Liedes wrote: Hi! I see that Linux 3.4 supports bigger metadata blocks for btrfs. Will using them allow a bigger number of

Re: Will big metadata blocks fix # of hardlinks?

2012-05-29 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 02:09:03PM +0100, Martin wrote: Thanks for noting this one. That is one very surprising and unexpected limit!... And a killer for some not completely rare applications... There have been substantially-complete patches posted to this list which fix the problem (see

Will big metadata blocks fix # of hardlinks?

2012-05-26 Thread Sami Liedes
Hi! I see that Linux 3.4 supports bigger metadata blocks for btrfs. Will using them allow a bigger number of hardlinks on a single file (i.e. the bug that has bitten at least git users on Debian[1,2], and BackupPC[3])? As far as I understand correctly, the problem has been that the hard links