On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 07:23 -0600, Shelby, James wrote: > Can anyone tell me what the actual limit is for an ext3 filesystem? > I’ve done some google searching and according to the wiki it seems 32k > directories and 32k files however I have seen that people have > reported 3 million+ files which doesn’t seem there is a real limit in > the code. > > > > I’m trying to find out what happens which you exceed that 32k as we > previously had 200k files in multiple directories which on those > drives we had a 70%+ failure rate. Those drives were Western Digital > 2TB RE4 which seemed to have an excess high failure rate. After > finding this limitation we migrated the data to XFS and in the past > four months have not seen a single reallocated sector in the SMART > data. I’m wondering if it is possible this could be related or if it > was just a bad group of drives. Note that we had several drives > warranty replaced and even those drives were failing within two months > until the filesystem type change. > > > > Thanks > > James > > > > Looks like it might be controlled by an option in mkfs.ext3. -- ======================================================================= When the going gets tough, everyone leaves. -- Lynch ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
