Coda File System

Re: large servers: please help

From: Peter J. Braam <braam_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:52:13 -0500 (EST)
This would be for one server.  You could have many of course that enter
the /coda name space transparently.

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Peter J. Braam wrote:
> 
> > Where will the limits lie?  I think that I can see that we can scale Coda
> > to approximately 500,000 files over the next year (the size of the files
> > is irrelevant). There will be implementation changes needed for that which
> > are not backward compatible, and you'll need a kernel patch on the
> > servers.  Getting beyond that would require major rewrites.
> 
> Is this 500,000 files on *one* server, or total for an entire coda
> namespace distributed among multiple servers? Basically, can one get
> around this limit by thowing a bunch of machines at the problem? (Possibly
> in a cluster application?)
> 
> 
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