Re: IFS limits

["Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

2 to 3 mil ifs objects
15 min with LTO7 and SSD

Paul

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> On Apr 11, 2019, at 3:38 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Absolutely has. With async bring on the save side it's night and day.
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> > On 4/11/2019 3:26 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:
> > Yep, we had that before as well.
> > Looks like based on Robs input the limits have been upped.
> > What I don't know if the IFS has become any more efficient for backup and recovery in the past 10 years.
> > Regards,
> > Richard Schoen
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> > message: 2
> > date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:41:58 +0000
> > from: Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > subject: RE: IFS limits
> > Do you mean 1 million IFS files in a single directory?  We have a user with over 1 million IFS files (*AUTL, no private authority) with no issues.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Schoen [mailto:richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 12:23 PM
> > To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: IFS limits
> > Boy have I got an IFS story for you.
> > Found out the hard way on IFS limits several years back with a customer.
> > Customer was generating 1,000,000 documents per month. Yep, per month.
> > We discovered ownership limit was about 1,000,000 documents.
> > Started getting user issues and things blowing up.
> > Ended up creating a directory each week I believe and a new user profile to go with it.
> > Now talk about painful management of objects.
> > 250,000 is probably not bad, but probably time to open a new directory if possible.
> > Either way with that many objects IFS backup time is probably slow.
> > And eventually you may see object ownership issues unless ownership limits have been bumped up.
> > Many customers that I have worked with have migrated to using NFS and SAN these days which means you treat it like IFS, but it's not.
> > And object ownership issues go away and you have to back up the SAN or NAS of course. But that disk is much, much cheaper.
> > Hope this helps
> > Regards
> > Richard Schoen
> > Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
> > Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Phn: (612) 315-1745
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