From: Alexander Gonta 
Subject: Re: Maximum number of files on a Netware 4.11 Volume
Date: 1999/03/31
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To: Derek Moir 
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Hi Derek,

You have some wrong info. The correct info is as follows:

You have a Directory Entry Table per Name Space limit.

So, say you're running 4 name spaces, DOS, LONG, MAC,
and NFS. Now, you have a directory entry table entry per
file. Thus, each file takes up 4 entries. Then multiply this
by all the files on a volume. The maximum number
this value can be is 2.2 Million on NW 4.11 and 50k
on Netware 3.12.

In other words, you can still have empty space on a volume,
but no "directory entry" space, with which to catalog files
per name space. With only DOS, LONG name spaces however,
it will take you a very long time to run out of Directory Entry
Tables. The removal of name spaces involves running Vrepair.


To not have this problem, have more volumes, since
it's a Directory Entry Table entry limit per volume, not
overall for the whole server.

                Sincerely,

                    Alex G.

Derek Moir wrote:

> I have read some where that the maximum number of files that can be
> contained on a NetWare volume is 16,000,000 and this number is divided by
> the number of name spaces loaded e.g. if long names is loaded then the
> number is 8,000,000 files.
>
> Can anyone point me in the direction of a App Note, document  or Tid that
> outlines this.
>
> Thanks