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.
Ext3 has a 32k sub-directory limit. The number of files in a directory is limited to.. a really big number (1.3 x 10^20). Total files/folders for the whole file system is limited to the number of inodes available. > > 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. > I would bet my money on that your file system change and the drive failures stopping was just a coincidence. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
