On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 06:03:38PM +0100, Chris Thompson wrote:
Look at "options wafl.maxdirsize" (or, in more recent ONTAP versions, "vol options maxdirsize"). The default is 10 MB, and a directory that size will hold 327680 entries if the names are small enough: less than that otherwise.
Great, thanks.
You can increase the value, but directories this size are not really a very good idea, even with the ONTAP fast lookup enhancements.
Whether the Linux client matters depends on what it thinks of caching NFS readdir results of that size. Not with great enthusiasm, I would guess. :-)
Does your application really need a flat directory structure this wide?
Well that is being debated, but at least I know it is technically possible. If it gets to that we'll do some performance testing.
Cheers, CM