Is there a limit to the number of files that can be seen through SAMBA Shares. We currently have approximately 120,000 files (and growing) under business related shares under our current Pathworks environment. With being in the process of transferring over to SAMBA we need to ensure that all the files are viewable. It may be advisable to split these shares across several disks on our UNIX environment. Any suggestions would be beneficial. Terry Cameron Snr Operations Analyst, App. Services SEALCORP Holdings Limited Level 38, Central Park 152 St Georges Tce, Perth 6000, WA e-mail: terry.cameron@sealcorp.com.au ph: (08) 9415 5780 mob: 0419 930 461 "---- Building SEALCORP's new Infrastructure ---" ====================================================== IMPORTANT INFORMATION This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and should be read only by those persons to whom it is addressed. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by way of reply. Please also destroy and delete the message from your computer. Any unauthorised form of reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited. It is the duty of the recipient to virus scan and otherwise test the information provided before loading onto any computer system. SEALCORP does not warrant that the information is free of a virus or any other defect or error. SEALCORP is not liable for the proper and complete transmission of the information contained in this communication, nor for any delay in its receipt. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of SEALCORP. =======================================================
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:09:35AM +0800, Cameron, Terry wrote:> Is there a limit to the number of files that can be seen through SAMBA > Shares. We currently have approximately 120,000 files (and growing) > under business related shares under our current Pathworks environment. > With being in the process of transferring over to SAMBA we need to > ensure that all the files are viewable. > > It may be advisable to split these shares across several disks on our > UNIX environment. Any suggestions would be beneficial.No, there are no limits to the number of files that can be seen by Samba, although path lengths are limited to 1024 bytes and directory component lengths are limited to 256 bytes. Jeremy.
>From personal experience, I may suggest, however if you have over10,000 files in a single directory, that you make certain your Filesystem can handle the number of files efficiently. In Linux, for example, I think ReiserFS is the best candidate for this kind of application. On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 08:36:36AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:> On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:09:35AM +0800, Cameron, Terry wrote: > > Is there a limit to the number of files that can be seen through SAMBA > > Shares. We currently have approximately 120,000 files (and growing) > > under business related shares under our current Pathworks environment. > > With being in the process of transferring over to SAMBA we need to > > ensure that all the files are viewable. > > > > It may be advisable to split these shares across several disks on our > > UNIX environment. Any suggestions would be beneficial. > > No, there are no limits to the number of files that can be seen > by Samba, although path lengths are limited to 1024 bytes and > directory component lengths are limited to 256 bytes. > > Jeremy. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba