>From personal experience, I may suggest, however if you have over 10,000 files in a single directory, that you make certain your Filesystem can handle the number of files efficiently. In Linux, for example, I think ReiserFS is the best candidate for this kind of application.
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 08:36:36AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:09:35AM +0800, Cameron, Terry wrote: > > Is there a limit to the number of files that can be seen through SAMBA > > Shares. We currently have approximately 120,000 files (and growing) > > under business related shares under our current Pathworks environment. > > With being in the process of transferring over to SAMBA we need to > > ensure that all the files are viewable. > > > > It may be advisable to split these shares across several disks on our > > UNIX environment. Any suggestions would be beneficial. > > No, there are no limits to the number of files that can be seen > by Samba, although path lengths are limited to 1024 bytes and > directory component lengths are limited to 256 bytes. > > Jeremy. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
