On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Bill Nickless wrote:

| 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....

| 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?

The following is from the schedule log on sunsite.unc.edu:

01/02/97   06:56:08 Total number of objects inspected: 1,982,677
01/02/97   06:56:08 Total number of objects backed up:   10,179
01/02/97   06:56:08 Total number of objects updated:         17
01/02/97   06:56:08 Total number of objects rebound:          0
01/02/97   06:56:08 Total number of objects deleted:      3,105
01/02/97   06:56:08 Total number of objects failed:           0
01/02/97   06:56:08 Total number of bytes transferred:           1.8 GB
01/02/97   06:56:08 Data transfer time:                1,838.50 sec
01/02/97   06:56:08 Data transfer rate:                1,028.76 KB/sec
01/02/97   06:56:08 Average file size:                    185.7 KB
01/02/97   06:56:08 Elapsed processing time:           03:56:05
01/02/97   06:56:08 Scheduled event 'DAILY_MIDNITE' completed
successfully.

As you can see we're up to nearly 2 million files.  :)  This is just
backups--we're not running HSM yet.

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Joe Morris  -  morris AT unc DOT edu  -  http://sunsite.unc.edu/morris
Academic Technology and Networks (formerly OIT), Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill