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>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu> writes: Jan> All the numbers you find (i.e. the 25GB server limit) is Jan> based on the assumption that files are on average 16KB, and Jan> typical file/directory distributions as found in surveys of Jan> UNIX systems in the late 80s/early 90s. For people with existing setups they want to migrate to Coda, or even pilot setups, maybe a tool that (1) walks the tree and computes the actual distributions, and (2) then pessimizes them an "appropriate"[1] amount to give better estimates of the limits/configuration parameters could be written. Footnotes: [1] This is the word that allows me to punt on writing it myself. ;-) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.Received on 2003-09-04 21:44:01