Re: Mass-Hardlinking Oops

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* 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 all in the same directory.

So to work around this limit, I could do something like this?

  mkdir tmp.$$
  ln a tmp.$$/b
  ln tmp.$$/b .
  rm tmp.$$/b
  rmdir tmp.$$

(Instead of "ln a b".)

What am I missing?

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