[Samba] Samba Restrictions

[Volker Lendecke]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:11:22PM +0100, timothy.brandrick at barclays.com wrote:
> 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.

Sure, there are no such limits in Samba. The only thing that
you need to watch out for is individual directories with
lots and lots of files or subdirs in one level. This is
possible but might become slow. I would start to test it if
you find directories with >1000 ntries.

Volker
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