Bug#633062: btrfs-tools: btrfs fs: Hardlinks-per-directory limit hit
 

found 633062 linux-2.6/2.6.32-35
found 633062 linux-2.6/2.6.32-39
found 633062 linux-2.6/3.1.1-1
retitle 633062 btrfs: low limit on number of hard links to one inode in one directory
forwarded 633062 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/6285/focus=6354
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Adrian Zaugg wrote:

> Cannot hard link to `./cpool/1/a/b/1ab6fd829106709f984790594fe94756': Too many links
>
> This behaviour of btrfs is known and had been discussed under [1] (in detail)

Right. This mostly gets hit by backuppc and other backup programs,
nnmaildir, and busybox-style programs like git[0]. The upstream
status seems to be "patches welcome". (Yes, it involves a format
change, but there will be plenty of format changes yet, so that's not
a big deal.)

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/642603



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