On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:38:41PM -0500, Wade Stebbings wrote:I am building a file server, now, and am considering my options. In reading the various Coda resources, manuals and other web pages, I've seen reference to file size and number of files (directory size) limitations.
Currently we are still limited to something between 4000 and 8000 files per directory until we fix the way directories are stored on both the clients and the servers. Right now the directory stored in RVM cannot exceed 256KB in total size.
Thanks.
I saw the reference in the mail archive to 256KB in a discussion about Coda scaling. The discussion was about a year ago, and so I didn't know (1) how this might have changed since then, and (2) exactly how the 256KB directory size limitation translated into number of files.
What, may I ask, is the mode of failure when a directory exceeds 256KB?
wade
