We have two filesystems (Windows NT) that have 1,018,922 and 1,225,518
files backed up. No problems!
Bob Price
Westinghouse I & T Information Systems
11 Stanwix Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Email: pricerr AT westinghouse DOT com
Voice: (412) 642-3634, (WIN) 272-3634
FAX: (412) 642-3929, (WIN) 272-3929
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>From: Bill Nickless[SMTP:nickless AT MCS.ANL DOT GOV]
>Sent: Thursday, January 02, 1997 11:31 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>Subject: Million file limit?
>
>At 10:29 AM 1/2/97 -0500, Joe Morris wrote:
>>I would strongly encourage you to get involved in attending some of the
>>USENIX Conferences. At least make sure you get someone to the LISA
>>Conference. Thousands turn out for this annual, week-long conference held
>>in the Fall. This is not just another circus like Interop, but real
>>administrators who come to learn and share admin experiences with others.
>>There were quite a few vendors this past year, but only 1 or 2 of them
>>dealt with enterprise backups--lousy ones at that. You can get more info
>>from http:///www.usenix.org.
>
>Several of our people went to LISA in Chicago this year. One rumor that
>came back from LISA was that ADSM failed, silently and hard, when it hit a
>million files stored. The rumor goes on, quoting IBM as saying they're not
>going to fix it. This is now part of the received wisdom around our site;
>frankly, I find it hard to believe based on the good experiences I have had
>setting up ADSM with 3494 libraries and 3590 drives.
>
>My guess is that the million file limit came from somone setting up an HSM
>client with only a million inodes, and when it hit a million files it quit
>accepting new ones. Either that or someone set up their db too small.
>
>I would be interested to hear from sites that are storing more than a
>million files, especially those that are storing >1E6 files via the HSM
>client. Also, if this story sounds familiar, and you know the details, I
>would be interested to hear about them as well. Also: is there an easy way
>to query a filespace or storage pool to see how many files are stored in
>that filespace/storage pool?
>
>Thanks,
>--
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