# How Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke ext4 Hardlinks
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-jennifer-aniston-and-friends-cost-us-377gb-and-broke-ext4-hardlinks/400360
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**Created:** [9 april 2026 om 22:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-jennifer-aniston-and-friends-cost-us-377gb-and-broke-ext4-hardlinks/400360 "2026-04-09T22:35:42Z")
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### Author:  [@ducks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ducks)
#### Post date: [9 april 2026 om 22:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-jennifer-aniston-and-friends-cost-us-377gb-and-broke-ext4-hardlinks/400360/1 "2026-04-09T22:35:42Z")
It started with backup issues. Sites with hundreds of gigabytes of uploads were running out of disk space during backup generation. One site had 600+ GB of uploads and the backup process kept dying.
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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/how-jennifer-aniston-and-friends-cost-us-377gb-and-broke-ext4-hardlinks](https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/how-jennifer-aniston-and-friends-cost-us-377gb-and-broke-ext4-hardlinks)
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [9 april 2026 om 23:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-jennifer-aniston-and-friends-cost-us-377gb-and-broke-ext4-hardlinks/400360/2 "2026-04-09T23:03:06Z")
I like those technical blog posts. They bring a taste different from the “regular” one, often very marketing-oriented.
> And now I know Jennifer Aniston can stress-test infrastructure.
It’s a stretch, but it makes me think how Will Smith eating spaghetti was (still is?) somewhat a benchmark for generative AIs… 😄
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### Author:  [@John\_Hilliard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/John_Hilliard)
#### Post date: [10 april 2026 om 18:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-jennifer-aniston-and-friends-cost-us-377gb-and-broke-ext4-hardlinks/400360/3 "2026-04-10T18:03:41Z")
