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DFS Limits on subfolders - namespaces and replication
Karim Virani 09.07.2007 22:52:03
So I want to use DFS to share the entire documents repository of a small
organization (40 person non-profit) between 2 sites. I'm a bit confused
about limits both on the domain-based namespace and for replication.

I saw another post that said that the 5,000 folder limit on domain based
namespaces isn't really about sub-folders - it's about root folders.

Then I saw another post about replication limits that led to a blog at
http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2005/12/12/Understanding-DFS-Replication-_2200_limits_2200_.aspx
which seems to be a very well written article, but still leaves me confused
about whether we are counting subfolders.

So here's my story:
We have a single shared folder containing 114,000 files in 9,300 folders
accounting for 92 gigabytes on disk. In the root of the share there are 60
folders, thus the tree is fairly deep. But most of these files are seldom
visited and I'm sure we've never had more than 1000 files changing per day.

Again, with 2 sites, am I going to hit replication or namespace limits with
this deployment?

TIA,

Karim

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