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

[ducks (on the pond)]

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

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

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…

[John_Hilliard]