jeff.mery@ni.com (Jeff Mery) asks
On a related note to the conversation below - What's the impact to increasing maxdirsize on a given volume? We have a qtree approaching the limit for its volume. Does maxdirsize function like maxfiles/inodes?
Not really. maxdirsize can be altered up or down at any time. It's a safety limit on the size of any individual directory. What hurts the system (often quite badly) is actually having directories that big (maxdirsize defaults to 1% of the filer's memory size). Putting it back down will not cause an overlarge directory to shrink (although it will stop it getting any larger).
"A qtree approaching the limit for its volume" doesn't sound relevant here unless you have only one directory in the qtree, i.e. a completely flat naming scheme. That certainly isn't a good idea.