Am 29.07.2012 21:13, schrieb C Anthony Risinger: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Konstantin Dmitriev > <ksee.zelgadis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Dipl.-Ing. Michael Niederle <mniederle <at> gmx.at> writes: >> >>> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
