Hi
Regarding the NTFS side of things, NTFS will theoretically hold as many
files as you can store on the disk along with the FAT (file allocation
table). However before SP 6a there was a bug which limited the FAT to 4GB
which is enough for around 4million files/folders. On SP6a you should be
able to use the full disk capacity.
There are articles in Microsoft's knowledge base "Technet" which describe
these limits, the FAT size per file. If you are going to have very large
file allocation tables it is also wise to modify the initial space allocated
to the FAT from the default of 12.5% (I think) up 25 or 50%. This a registry
setting which is described in the main technet article about NTFS. This is
not critical as the FAT will grow however it does mean that it will not
become fragmented which is very important for long term performance.
Sorry I do not have the article references to hand but a quick search of
technet with the keyword NTFS or look at the bug fixes for SP6a.
Hope this helps
Steve
Steven Moore
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From: Adrien-Claude Bance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] How many users can IMAIL support
> MMM...we have 200 users one NT4 and the smtp is slow..
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> Adrien-Claude Bance
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> From: "Bill Klein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 2:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] How many users can IMAIL support
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>
> > Hello,
> >
> > >We are an ISP and currently support 7700 users in the NT SAM.
> >
> > We have about 15,000 users on one of our NT4 boxes, so I don't
> > think 7,700 will be an problem. The only real problem I have
> > with IMail for such a large amount of users is that the
> > interface is pretty much useless if you need to edit one of
> > those users because you need to display the entire list of
> > users (well, not true, you need to wait until IMail gets to
> > *that* user on the list...); would be much nicer if you could
> > just type in a username and edit that user regardless of others.
> >
> > >We are concerned not about the NT SAM size as much as to limits
> > >of the number of directories allowed under NT 4.0
> >
> > You mean directories on your hard disk? What is the limit? On
> > this machine I'm talking about we have several directories
> > for each of those 15,000 users and have had no problems (this
> > is on an NTFS partition of course).
> >
> >
> > -Bill Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
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