15 Jan
2001
15 Jan
'01
4:01 p.m.
Greetings,
I'm planning on using a NetApp 760 to store *many* small files. However, I'm getting vague answers from NetApp for my problem, so I figure I'd ask here.
NetApp has told me that they don't recommend that I have more than 250,000 inodes per volume. Is this a real limitation, because my NetApps currently have 6.1 million inodes available? The online documentation says I only need to add more hard drives to get more inodes (1 per 32K). Has anyone used the netapp for small files? Small means millions of < 60K. Also, I need all these files available on one share.
Also, what should I look out for? I know to disable the read ahead cache. I plan to not use snapshots.
thanx, -Mag