Jan Harkes wrote:
Some of these I know, but there are probably many I don't even know.

   directory size:      256KB
        - this doesn't easily translate to # of files, because it
          depends on the average filename size, padding, space for the
          file identifiers, etc.
          a ballpark figure would be between 2048 and 4096 files.

Is there any way to modify or override this limitation? I think this was the wall I was running into while trying to load all those .gif's into a coda directory.

Thanks,



Jan Harkes wrote:

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:26:15AM -0600, Patrick Walsh wrote:


One thing that I'd also like to see -- maybe its place is on the wiki
-- is a list of Coda's constraints. How many files in a directory can
coda handle, what are the limitations when working with big files, etc.



Some of these I know, but there are probably many I don't even know.

   volume names:        32 characters
   file names:          256 characters
   path names:          1024 characters
   ACLs per directory: 20
        - Don't know why I always thought it was 6

   directory size:      256KB
        - this doesn't easily translate to # of files, because it
          depends on the average filename size, padding, space for the
          file identifiers, etc.
          a ballpark figure would be between 2048 and 4096 files.

   volumes/server:      1024
   replicas/volume:     8
   users and groups:    unknown, I tried several thousand
   users/group: unknown, at least several thousand as well
     - Here is a CVS commit message related to that,
        2003/06/17 20:39:23     <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
        Caching the rwcdb handle across accesses. Time to import 5000 users
       and a group containing all users went (on my laptop) from 21+ minutes
       to 11.621 seconds. The 100,000 user test is taking a lot longer to
       import but checking group membership as the import is still going

   directories/volume:  Depends on the size of the volume resolution log
     - We use one 'ResolveNull' entry for each directory.

   resolution log:      Administrative limit
     - By default a volume has 4096 entries, but this can be increased
        with 'volutil setlogparms <volid> reson 4 logsize <n>'.

   files/volume:        Unknown
     - not as simple as (files/directory * directories/volume) because
        at some point we have trouble finding enough unfragmented RVM
        memory to allocate the flat lookup table. I think RVM allocation
        issues hit around 200,000 files/volume, but I could be wrong.

   servers/realm:       253
     - We need unique server-id's in the range [0:255]. But 0, 127, and
        255 are 'reserved' to indicate 'no volume, replicated volume,
        and error'.

   rvm data/server:     anywhere between 1GB and 3GB
     - depends on where the OS loads it's shared libraries and such.

   ... probably many more

Jan






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