I completely missed this one ... thanks to LTT for putting it on my attention radar.

TIL: Ext4 only allows for 65536 hardlinks per file.

And funnily, for no certain reason, so does OpenZFS on linux.

Courtesy of #discourse ;)

blog.discourse.org/2026/04/how…

#Best #quote of #2026 so far:

And now I know Jennifer Aniston can stress-test infrastructure.

#Jennifer #Aniston #Rachel from #Friends doing a #happy #dance #FSLimits #ext4 #zfs #openzfs #linux #infrastructure #backend #stress #test #RandomShit ;)

How Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke ext4 Hardlinks

One reaction GIF. Used constantly in posts, PMs, everywhere. Each use in a different security context creates a new copy. 246,173 copies of Rachel from Friends doing a happy dance.

Discourse