Dave Howorth said the following on 10/02/2013 09:41 AM:
Greg Freemyer wrote:
No, nor in 12.3. There are RPMs that won't even install if the destination is btrfs. The issue is limited links (hard? / soft?).
Interesting. I haven't heard of that problem before. Is it this one:
http://nlug.ml1.co.uk/2012/05/btrfs-max-number-of-hardlinks-gotcha/3127
Eh? <quote> You are very limited to the maximum number of hard links to a single file when the hard links and that one target file are all in the same directory. For hard links where the source and target are in different directories, the limit for btrfs is a more reasonable 2^32. </quote> That's for one file. NOT the total number of links the file system supports. IF and ONLY IF you have an old version AND you have long file names AND you link to the same file in the same directory with more and more of those long file names THEN ....... Fringe case? I'd say that there's something peculiar aout the design of your software if its doing that. Cam MS-Windows do that? -- 'Witches just aren't like that,' said Magrat. 'We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it's wicked of them to say we don't. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.' (Wyrd Sisters) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org