There&#39;s nothing official, because it depends how the environment..mostly application, is built around a high file count problem.<br><br>Ive helped customers manage systems with 5B files &amp; directories on a single system, but how the filesystem was used by the application layer..was critical in this working...or not.<br>
<br>Local disk or not, you dont want huge directory structures.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Slamon, Stefanie <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sslamon@akamai.com">sslamon@akamai.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Nick,<br>
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You&#39;re not going to find an official guide on this topic, but here&#39;s what I found in the Netapp forums after having similar questions:<br>
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<a href="https://communities.netapp.com/message/5775#5775" target="_blank">https://communities.netapp.com/message/5775#5775</a><br>
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~Stef<br>
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Subject: max directory depth and max dir size<br>
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Maybe I&#39;m just being an idiot, but I couldn&#39;t seem to find best practices that describe max directory depth and size. I know anecdotally directories shouldn&#39;t be larger than 10mb (the directory itself, not the contents) but I can&#39;t seem to find an official best practice guide that has these. Can anyone point me to the right doc?<br>

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Thanks in advance,<br>
Nick<br>
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