Re:Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive
by ape4 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @08:26AM
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And, of course, 5MB isn't some power of 2 (as most limits are). Its hard to imagine where Google got the number unless its just some hardcoded constant.
Re:Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive
by denysvitali on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @08:36AM
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They most likely hit some sort of limit in the Zanzibar implementation.
Every file has a set of permissions attached to it, because you can grant fine-grained permissions to every single file in Drive, Photos, YouTube, ...
I imagine that they hit some limit in that part, and tried to find a way to limit the issue...
But this does remind me of having to set up a cron job on an old PHP application because the sessions were saved as files and it ran into the inode limit several years in :P