Holger Parplies wrote at about 19:34:27 +0200 on Monday, August 8, 2011:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > as Jeffrey said, we'll need meaningful information to give meaningful 
 > answers.

Oh my goodness, did Holger Top Quote????? say it isn't so :P

 > One thing I can answer, though:
 > 
 > friedmann wrote on 2011-08-08 09:19:51 -0700 [[BackupPC-users]  Too many 
 > links : where is the problem ?]:
 > > [...]
 > > the backup machine is 32bits, ubuntu 10.04.1, operating on ext3 partitions 
 > > :
 > > What is then the maximum value for this parameter ?
 > 
 > figure it out for yourself:
 > 
 >      % # go to a directory on the partition you are interested in, make sure 
 > you have write access
 >      % mkdir linktest
 >      % cd linktest
 >      % touch 1
 >      % perl -e 'for (my $i = 2; ; $i ++) { link "1", $i or die "Cant create 
 > ${i}th link: $!\n"; }'
 > 
 > (this answer is also valid for any other (UNIX type) OS/FS).
 > 

FYI, On 32-bit Fedora 12/Linux 2.6.32:
   Ext2/3: MAX=32000
   Ext4: MAX=65000

This presumably should be true more generally for any relatively
non-ancient & unhacked version of Linux...

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