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Re:Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive by tyingq on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @06:42AM (#35437561)
>I wonder if there is still a limit with modern Linux OSes and that is why Google is limiting some of their users?

Ext4 has 32-bit/~4billion max limit per filesystem, newer filesystems like btrfs have a 64bit limit. Neither allocates the whole max size by default. I don't imagine Google drive uses an out of the box filesystem underneath though.

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Re:Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive by Conan_Kudo on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @06:44AM (#35437576)
Btrfs is particularly special as the inode limit is per subvolume, so it's quite easy to have an impractically huge number of them with some cleverness.
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