Hi Shyam,
Am 04.04.2012 21:33, schrieb Shyam Prasad N:
> On 04/04/2012 10:08 PM, Arnd Hannemann wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> today I experimented with hard links on btrfs and by this used all available inode space of a file.
>> Interestingly if this happens even a rename of such an filename to an _equal length_ filename
>> fails:
>>
>> arnd@kallisto:/mnt/btrfs/tmp$ mv a b
>> mv: cannot move `a' to `b': Too many links
>>
>> Is this expected behavior?
>> There should be no reason to let this particular case fail?
>>
> What do you mean by 'used all available inode space'? What did you do exactly?
I created hard links of a file in the same directory until no additional one
can be created.
Eg.:
touch a
for i in {1..1000}; do ln a $i; done;
Best regards
Arnd
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