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

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
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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… :smile:

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