Ryan Bair wrote:
I have single directories with over 100,000 entries and about 4
million files on the system total spanning about 15TB. I don't think
you should have a problem. Only problem I have is that directory
listings take a while with 100K entries but that's to be expected.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:11 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I'm hopping you can give me some advice, I work for a Financial Institute
and we are very interested in implementing Samba as a file server running on
AIX 5.3. Before we can think about implementing this we need to no if Samba
has any limitation on number of folders, files and shares. The current file
storage system is running on Windows 2003 server and has somewhere in the
region of 51,000 folders and 450,000 files taking up 200GB would samba be
able to cope with this?
Your feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks
Tim
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Just be careful that you pick a file system with enough inodes. I think
reiserfs has a great number of inodes and will handle multiple small
files quickly; although, it is... cranky; I assume if you're a financial
institute you have redundant everything and incremental backups
constantly chugging off site, so it shouldn't be too much of a risk.
Just make sure you don't drop the power, reiserfs will need to replay
the journal and might need a fsck tree rebuild if you ever shut down
while it's still mounted. I hear XFS also has many of these traits (and
is somewhat more mature, although I think it has an issue on AIX, IIRC
something isn't supported... snapshotting, perhaps?), as does JFS.
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