Is this really, possibly, wonderfully true??!! Which version of ONTAP fixed this? The reason I ask is that on all our filers the total number of folders at any one directory level was a function of the inode limit of a 2 bit, unsigned pointer
... and still is, AFAIK. We can cope with lots of files, just not lots of subdirectories. That said, I haven't met a million-file or million-directory application yet which wasn't served better by bushing things up a bit and keeping intermediate subdirectories smaller.
Bruce added:
So, obviously, the directory limitation is different, and I am actually kinda surprised to see it is still there... time for a new filesystem format? :)
That's what it'd take. There's just not that much spare room in the inode to hold a bigger link count.
Regards, Garth.
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