[CentOS] Software RAID complete drives or individual partitions

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com> wrote:
> On 03/06/2013 11:49 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I wouldn't hold my breath.  Someone on the backuppc list reported that
>> it had a tiny limit on hardlinks which would make it seem to me like
>> they don't quite understand how filesystems are supposed to work.
>
> The limitation was fixed in 3.7:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15762
>
> I think the btfs developers understand quite well how filesystems are
> supposed to work.  As best I understand it, the limitation was a result
> of back-references, which are an important feature to keep inodes from
> ending up as orphans.  If you're going to have an on-line fsck, that
> matters.

OK, but in my opinion it is worse if that was a design decision that
is just now being changed.  Bugs I can understand, but not choosing to
design a new filesystem with unrealistic limitations.

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   Les Mikesell
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