# 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
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [9 באפריל,‏ 2026,‏ 10:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-jennifer-aniston-and-friends-cost-us-377gb-and-broke-ext4-hardlinks/400360 "2026-04-09T22:35:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![ducks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ducks/32/518975_2.png) [@ducks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ducks)
#### Post date: [9 באפריל,‏ 2026,‏ 10:35pm 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")

</div>

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.

* * *
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)

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-jennifer-aniston-and-friends-cost-us-377gb-and-broke-ext4-hardlinks/400360)._