[Samba] Samba Restrictions

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:11 AM,  <timothy.brandrick at barclays.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I'm hopping you can give me some advice,  I work for a Financial Institute
>  and we are very interested in implementing Samba as a file server running on
>  AIX 5.3.  Before we can think about implementing this we need to no if Samba
>  has any limitation on number of folders, files and shares.  The current file
>  storage system is running on Windows 2003 server and has somewhere in the
>  region of 51,000 folders and 450,000 files taking up 200GB would samba be
>  able to cope with this?
>
Yes. Our main samba server has. 4,000,000 files taking up 3TB of space
with many thousand folders.

John