[Samba] Samba Restrictions

Scott Lovenberg scott.lovenberg at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 22:47:11 GMT 2008


Ryan Bair wrote:
> I have single directories with over 100,000 entries and about 4
> million files on the system total spanning about 15TB. I don't think
> you should have a problem. Only problem I have is that directory
> listings take a while with 100K entries but that's to be expected.
>
> 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?
>>
>>  Your feedback would be appreciated.
>>
>>  Thanks
>>  Tim
>>
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Just be careful that you pick a file system with enough inodes.  I think 
reiserfs has a great number of inodes and will handle multiple small 
files quickly; although, it is... cranky; I assume if you're a financial 
institute you have redundant everything and incremental backups 
constantly chugging off site, so it shouldn't be too much of a risk.  
Just make sure you don't drop the power, reiserfs will need to replay 
the journal and might need a fsck tree rebuild if you ever shut down 
while it's still mounted.  I hear XFS also has many of these traits (and 
is somewhat more mature, although I think it has an issue on AIX, IIRC 
something isn't supported... snapshotting, perhaps?), as does JFS.


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