There is no practical limitation. The would-be limitation of number of files per directory is already mitigated by having a deep structure (AA/BB/CC/AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH...) to keep the files sparse.
You still may want to check what's your largest number of files per directory and create a new assetstore if it's in the thousands, but that should not happen unless you have a humongous number of bitstreams (and assuming no significant deficiencies in the hashing function used): du /dspace/assetstore/ --inodes -S | sort -n | tail Multiple assetstores are available not due to a limitation in size from DSpace, but rather to accomodate size limitations of physical devices and make adding another device/assetstore easy. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Jeffrey A Trimble <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a mandatory size limitation of an Assetstore? My disk space is > more or less limitless—I just have to declare space (I’m using AIX with > DS4700 Storage array). > > > > Is there a point when I should begin a new asststore, (such as assetstore2)? > Should it be based on backup conditions such as tape size (yes, we are still > old technology with LTO 4.0 tapes). > > > > TIA, > > > > Jeff > > > > Jeffrey Trimble, MLS > > William F. Maag Library > > Youngstown State University > > 330.941.2483 (Office) > > [email protected] > > http://www.maag.ysu.edu > > http://digital.maag.ysu.edu > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DSpace Technical Support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
