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That's one backup every hour for 7+ years. I'm really curious about the use case.

Anyway, theoretically[0]:

> As you might know btrfs treats subvolumes as filesystems and hence the number of snapshots is indeed limited: namely by the size of files. According to the btrfs wiki the maximum filesize that can be reached is 2^64 byte == 16 EiB

But it seems practically you're hitting the mud at ~100 snapshots[1] but be sure to read the reply to that mail as it will depend on the use case and it might turn out to be fine way beyond that.

[0]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/140360/practical-li...

[1]: https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg...



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