[CentOS] Software RAID complete drives or individual partitions

Wed Mar 6 20:16:39 UTC 2013
Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com>

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.