Hi,

I am currently in the phase of deploying a server that could cater up to 150,000 records. This 150 000 records will be stored in each of its own folder (that means 150 000 folder). I was informed by a friend that in RH enterprise there is a folder limitations. We could only create up to 30 000 folder only

From my point of view that for a enterprise OS, this does not make sense. Anybody who have any experience regarding storage large info?

If helps, the server is running raid 5.

Does this limitations that my friend said was true???

Thanks.

Sounds like FUD. If there is a limit it is probably a filesystem limit, not an OS limit. And I doubt that it would be a round number like 50,000 but rather a number divisible by 8 and significantly more than 50,000.

Generally speaking a folder is nothing more than a special type of file. Given that generalization, 50,000 is definitely a low figure since I'm sure I've got well over that many files on several of my systems.

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I agree with MasterC. Where did you friend get that information from??? To point out that this is indeed false information, I do have a server that has a filesystem with over 1 million folders on RHEL 4 Update 4.

-twantrd

Thanks for the feedback,

Well i am not sure where did he actually got the information, i just posted here just for confirmation. Because from my personal point of view, it should be able to cater more. I have been linux for few years already and never came across this issue until a friend brought it up.

I just posted it here to clear my doubts.

Thanks guys for your answer.

Just as an addition, when talking about Linux distributions, any regular distribution doesn't put any more limits for you than "enterprise operating systems" do. RHELs are largely based on opensource code, GPL'd software and so on, and use filesystems common to other Linux variants also. It's not like in Windows world that you need to buy a more expensive version of their Server product to be able to do something more freely.