diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 68b1e0311..c6cd75726 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 * Add DB properties "rocksdb.block-cache-capacity", "rocksdb.block-cache-usage", "rocksdb.block-cache-pinned-usage" to show block cache usage.
 * Add `Env::LowerThreadPoolCPUPriority(Priority)` method, which lowers the CPU priority of background (esp. compaction) threads to minimize interference with foreground tasks.
 * Fsync parent directory after deleting a file in delete scheduler.
+* Change default value of `bytes_max_delete_chunk` to 0 in NewSstFileManager() as it doesn't work well with checkpoints.
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 * Fsync after writing global seq number to the ingestion file in ExternalSstFileIngestionJob.
diff --git a/include/rocksdb/sst_file_manager.h b/include/rocksdb/sst_file_manager.h
index c0e109f1e..177657777 100644
--- a/include/rocksdb/sst_file_manager.h
+++ b/include/rocksdb/sst_file_manager.h
@@ -98,12 +98,13 @@ class SstFileManager {
 //    DeleteScheduler immediately
 // @param bytes_max_delete_chunk: if a single file is larger than delete chunk,
 //    ftruncate the file by this size each time, rather than dropping the whole
-//    file. 0 means to always delete the whole file.
+//    file. 0 means to always delete the whole file. NOTE this options may not
+//    work well with checkpoints, which relies on file system hard links.
 extern SstFileManager* NewSstFileManager(
     Env* env, std::shared_ptr<Logger> info_log = nullptr,
     std::string trash_dir = "", int64_t rate_bytes_per_sec = 0,
     bool delete_existing_trash = true, Status* status = nullptr,
     double max_trash_db_ratio = 0.25,
-    uint64_t bytes_max_delete_chunk = 64 * 1024 * 1024);
+    uint64_t bytes_max_delete_chunk = 0);
 
 }  // namespace rocksdb