File system size question

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After all this time using the Celerra I should know this, but help me out here. I have a 704G running 5.5.28-1, mostly CIFS with some NFS. The back end is a CX700 with available disk space. My concern is one file system that currently is at about 1.3TB and continuing to grow. We are an AD Windows environment with mostly XP clients. This file system has primarily one share with multitudes of directories. Do I have to be concerned about the 2TB file system limits?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Harold

jimkunysz · Accepted Answer

No. the Celerra is not a windows server. It emulates via cifs. there is a possibility you could have issues with migration if a folder tree path exceeds the allowable character length in windows.
I've run into that problem alot. We have macs and the graphics folks create long file names, lots of nested folders and I end up having to use nfs to migrate their data around.

dynamox · Answer

i would say backup time and fsck if datamover happens to crash. I have multiple 2T file systems but i try not to go over that just because of my backup time windows.

nandas · Answer

Hi Harold,No - you need NOT to be worried with the limit as the File system Size limit on a NS700G running 5.5.28 code is 16 TB (theoretical). So you can grow beyond 2 TB. However, with larger file systems, there will be more overheads associated and increased backup time.Hope this helps.Thanks,Sandip

FresnoRed · Answer

Thanks to you-all,I thought that was the case, but I got some panic questions and got me paranoid.Yes, backup times are an issue, but we will live with that. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't creeping up on a Microsoft got-ya.Thanks again,Harold

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