On 8/8/2011 5:33 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote at about 16:59:45 -0500 on Monday, August 8, 2011:
>   >  On 8/8/2011 3:28 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
>   >  >
>   >  >
>   >  >  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...
>   >
>   >  Is exceeding that a fatal error?  I thought it was just supposed add an
>   >  entry like a hash collision and go on.
>
> Well the link command in Holger's perl script fails and I imagine a
> similar bash script would fail too...

I meant as far as backuppc is concerned.  I thought it was fairly common 
to have a bazillion copies of the same file scattered over your clients 
and backuppc did something reasonable - but I'm not quite sure what.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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