Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 16:28:28 -0400 on Monday, August 8, 2011:
 > 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
 > 

Interestingly, experimentally on ntfs-3g, I hit a limit at 8190, so if
anyone is using ntfs-3g, then they should be aware of that lower than
default limit!

Under cygwin ntfs, I got a limit of 1025, though I'm not sure BackupPC
can run under cygwin...

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