Hello Jerry,

> > Be also aware about server file number limit. 21G data should be ok,
> > twice as much (in small files) will be probably too much if you do
> > not distribute data between several servers.
> 
> I assume this refers to the "volume" limit quoted above... In fact we do 
> have 575000 files stored now, so I'll be splitting storage between 
> multiple volumes in any case.

no, I mean "limit of files per server" not "per volume"
Splitting between volumes does not help this.

Though, your average file size seems to be relatively big (about 36k ?)
and the number of files is hence still "acceptable".

Regards,
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Ivan