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December 11th, 2023 09:55
File System Limit / SMB share
Hi,
If i have a file system called Private that is close to 256TB which has an SMB share, \\domainname\private which houses multiple company folders and files. Is there a limitation to the file system Size? if so what? I believe i read somewhere it was 256TB if that is the case, is there a way to create another SMB share but house it in the same location \\domainname\private or will there need to be a brand new SMB share created which will have no relation to \private meaning company folders and files will be split across to shares?
ideal scenario is we want to keep all company folders and files in the same location \\domainname\private and not have them split across multiple export paths.
Thanks and i hope that makes sense.
cadencep45
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December 29th, 2023 08:38
this is what dfs can address ,ie
your top level dfs path can be something like
\\mycompanydata
the underlying paths are
\\mycompanydata\private pointing to the existing path \\domainname\private
the new path can be
\\mycompanydata\private_extend pointing to the existing path \\domainname\private_extend
whats the value ?
If at some future point you start to split up the single large folder ( recommended as you are close to hitting a logical limit ), you can reorg as
\\mycompanydata\private as a logical path, and
\\mycompanydata\private\origional pointing to the existing path \\domainname\private
with new subdirectories as you split origional \\domainname\private \subdir1 to
\\mycompanydata\private\subdir1 pointing to \\domainname\\subdir1 which as a new fs and share reduces size of \\domainname\private and gradually shrinks your problem.
A single large fs causes practical issues with backups/restores in terms of time to backup and time and priority of restores, so shrinking the existing large fs rather than trying to workaround the limit makes sense - well thats my tuppence worth.