Re: Limits in IFS

Mark,

The IFS has limits also, but they can be fairly easy to get around with 
just a little planning.  For example, lets say you have a main folder 
named /Documents where you want to store your documents.  You could create 
subfolders like /Documents/2003 or /Documents/2003/January. 

Using a system like that should make the limits easy to work with.

In the root file system, I believe the limit is 32,767 subfolders, and 
32,767 documents in a folder.  I am basing this on what running the 
"statfs" command says.

Mark








"Mark C Drackford" <mdrackfo@csc.com>
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02/13/2003 10:54 AM
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We store text documents as members in a file. Unfortunately we reached the
OS/400 limit of 32767 members and had to move to multiple files. Someone
has now suggested we should re-visit and move all the documents to IFS as
this has no limits. Can anyone confirm that there is no limit to the
maximum number of files in a directory? I've checked the manual and could
find no mention of limits.

Thanks,

Mark Drackford



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