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On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 11:34 AM, Jan Harkes wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:38:41PM -0500, Wade Stebbings wrote: >> I am building a file server, now, and am considering my >> options. In reading the various Coda resources, manuals >> and other web pages, I've seen reference to file size and >> number of files (directory size) limitations. > > Currently we are still limited to something between 4000 and 8000 files > per directory until we fix the way directories are stored on both the > clients and the servers. Right now the directory stored in RVM cannot > exceed 256KB in total size. Thanks. I saw the reference in the mail archive to 256KB in a discussion about Coda scaling. The discussion was about a year ago, and so I didn't know (1) how this might have changed since then, and (2) exactly how the 256KB directory size limitation translated into number of files. What, may I ask, is the mode of failure when a directory exceeds 256KB? wadeReceived on 2003-10-24 14:23:48