Re: severe hardlink bug

Am 29.07.2012 21:13, schrieb C Anthony Risinger:

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Konstantin Dmitriev
[off-list ref] wrote:

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Dipl.-Ing. Michael Niederle <mniederle <at> gmx.at> writes:

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I reinstalled over 700 packages - plt-scheme beeing the only one failing due to
the btrfs link restriction.

I have hit the same issue - tried to run BackupPC with a pool on btrfs
filesystem. After some time the error of "too many links (31)" appeared to me.
Now I'm forced to migrate to some other filesystem...

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.

Best regards
Arnd