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aaronstuder

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unable to create chunk store 'backups' subdir "/backups/.chunks/fde6" - EMLINK: Too many links

Any suggestions on how to fix this?
 
Which filesystem is the datastore on?
could you please also provide:
Code: 
mount
ls -1 /backups/.chunks |wc -l
Thanks!
 
Code: 
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=479556k,nr_inodes=119889,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=100488k,mode=755)
/dev/vda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup/unified type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
none on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rdma)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=36,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=13195)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,pagesize=2M)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /run/user/0 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=100484k,mode=700)

Code: 
root@LooseGeneral-VM:~# ls -1 /backups/.chunks |wc -l
64998
 
root@LooseGeneral-VM:~# df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev devtmpfs 469M 0 469M 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 99M 3.0M 96M 4% /run
/dev/vda1 ext3 916G 2.1G 867G 1% /
tmpfs tmpfs 491M 0 491M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs tmpfs 491M 0 491M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs tmpfs 99M 0 99M 0% /run/user/0
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Seems like ext3. Maybe this is not supported?
 
aaronstuder said:
Seems like ext3. Maybe this is not supported?
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no - I'll send a patch for the docs to make this more explicit:
* each datastore stores the chunks in subdirectories (for performance reasons), which have 2 bytes (written as hexdigits) as names
* this yields 65536 directories (+ . and ..)
some filesystems (ext3, ext4 if certain options are not enabled (they are in the default config) support fewer subdirectories per dir

-> please recreate the datastore as ext4/xfs/zfs
 
Stoiko Ivanov said:
no - I'll send a patch for the docs to make this more explicit:
* each datastore stores the chunks in subdirectories (for performance reasons), which have 2 bytes (written as hexdigits) as names
* this yields 65536 directories (+ . and ..)
some filesystems (ext3, ext4 if certain options are not enabled (they are in the default config) support fewer subdirectories per dir

-> please recreate the datastore as ext4/xfs/zfs
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Thank you!
 
To resolve this issue I ended up doing the installation uses the ISO file. However ext3 was one of the options during the install. I suggest you remove that option since it will not work :)
 
OK, found one other issue, I think? I did the ISO installation, and when I went to login via the WebGUI it would not work. Command line worked fine. I updated the password via the command line, and was able to login to the WebGUI.
 
I did the installation again using a new password, and I didn't have the password issue this time. (This might be my fault.)

I selected ZFS during installation, but it seems to be LVM? Hm....
 
Hi, this also seems to be an issue on an NFS mount ... any idea how I can increase the number there? The nfs is mounted from a synology ext4 volume
 
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Apollon77 said:
Hi, this also seems to be an issue on an NFS mount ... any idea how I can increase the number there? The nfs is mounted from a synology ext4 volume
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maybe the ext4 filesystem on synology does not have the dir_nlink tunable set
If you have shell access could you post the output of:
Code: 
tune2fs -l <device>
(replace <device> with the blockdevice the ext4 is on)
Thanks!
 
I hope it helps ...

admin@ApollonNAS:~$ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/vg1-volume_1
Password:
tune2fs 1.42.6 (21-Sep-2012)
Filesystem volume name: 1.41.12-3211
Last mounted on: /volume1
Filesystem UUID: f89e237d-662a-483d-9497-4e426109ea79
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize
Filesystem flags: unsigned_directory_hash
Default mount options: (none)
Filesystem state: clean
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: Linux
Inode count: 182853632
Block count: 731382784
Reserved block count: 25600
Free blocks: 511364210
Free inodes: 182518139
First block: 0
Block size: 4096
Fragment size: 4096
Reserved GDT blocks: 849
Blocks per group: 32768
Fragments per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 8192
Inode blocks per group: 512
Flex block group size: 16
Filesystem created: Sat Jun 15 15:49:03 2013
Last mount time: Wed Jul 22 06:23:36 2020
Last write time: Wed Jul 22 06:23:36 2020
Mount count: 781
Maximum mount count: 27
Last checked: Sat Jun 15 15:49:03 2013
Check interval: 15552000 (6 months)
Next check after: Thu Dec 12 14:49:03 2013
Lifetime writes: 10 TB
Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
First inode: 11
Inode size: 256
Required extra isize: 28
Desired extra isize: 28
Journal inode: 8
Default directory hash: half_md4
Directory Hash Seed: ebf0605d-6047-c658-32bd-e38b948bbbb8
Journal backup: inode blocks

It seems that "dir_index" is missing in the file system features from what I read in web
 
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