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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com