--- Magnus Thorne Magnus.Thorne@evoice.com wrote:
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.
The training I received from NetApp personnel indicated that a particular strength of WAFL is the ability to add more inodes on the fly. There wasn't any mention of any particular recommended limit.
A quick check of my system shows that even my smallest volumes currently have "Maximum Numer of Files" set over 1 million.
On a 760, one volume with 330 GB of data space, 13 million on MAX files, 550 thousand currently. Another with 150 GB of data space, 6 million on MAX files, 414 thousand currently. As far as I know, no one at our site purposely expanded any of the MAX settings.
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