On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 09:52:32 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia
> <nkadel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Please stop confusing "inode" with "disk space" It's more like you've
>>run out of boxes to put things in, i.e. inodes, than running out of
>>space to store store the boxes (i.e., disk space).
>
> Please do not confuse me with the original poster "Keva-Slient"....
> I merely stepped in to clarify if I might also have the problem, which
> he apparently is having.
> But I do not think so (I am on Windows Server 2016 with an NTFS file
> system).
Sorry about the quotation confusion.
NTFS also has limits on the maximum number of files for a filesystem.
There is no complete escape from the underlying limitations of
trade-offs of easy processing versus performance versus capacity that
lead to these limitations. There are also notable performance limits
on having too many files in a directory. We could have a long
discussion about the fundamentals: suffice to say that organizing a
bunch of associated bits into a single file, rather than scattering
many such bits around a filesystem and overpopulating a directory or a
filesystem is not your friend.
> --
> Bo Berglund
> Developer in Sweden
>
Received on 2018-01-03 20:19:48 CET