Post #2571899

Discourse realised that they had one site that had used a GIF of Rachel from Friends doing a happy dance 246,173 times which made their backups 432 GB instead of 26 GB. They fixed it with hard links only to break hardlinks as ext4 has a limit of roughly 65,000 hardlinks per inode. https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/how-jennifer-aniston-and-friends-cost-us-377gb-and-broke-ext4-hardlinks/