Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users

Re:Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, lock... by Kye on Saturday April 01, 2023 @09:21AM (#35400104)

If you manage to hit five billion files (which seems to be the standard limit), you might be in the market for object storage rather than new frontiers in file systems.

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Re:Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, lock... by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday April 01, 2023 @02:18PM (#35402585)

> five billion files (which seems to be the standard limit),

Article says 5 million? Still a big number, but smaller than 5 billion.

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Re:Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, lock... by Kye on Saturday April 01, 2023 @02:23PM (#35402641)

We're talking about file systems.

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Re:Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, lock... by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday April 01, 2023 @02:35PM (#35402781)

Then where are we getting 5 billion? The most common filesystem limits listed seem to be 2^32, which is a touch over 4 billion, and 2^64, which is Big.

(i.e. I can see now what I think you meant, but "5 billion" is a much closer match to "5 million" than 2^32)

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Re:Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, lock... by Kye on Saturday April 01, 2023 @02:44PM (#35402861)

My brain doesn't do numbers so good, so 4,294,967,295 became 4,924,967,295 and I rounded up instead of down.

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Re:Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, lock... by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday April 01, 2023 @03:03PM (#35403027)

Ah, that makes sense. Completely understandable:)

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