The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote: > It turns out that there is a hard limit of 65000 > hardlinks per on-disk file; That's a filesystem dependent value. That's the value for ext4. XFS has a much larger limit I believe. As well as some other helpful properties for large filesystems. btrfs has different limits, depending on where the hardlinks are, apparently. Some larger, some ridiculously smaller.