Re: Mass-Hardlinking Oops

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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 BUG(). The limit seems so arbitrary that it maybe can be made higher.. 32-bit (billions of links) seem totally unrestrictive..
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