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I think Google Drive is abstracted enough that they are not running into something basic like an inode limit... But this does remind me of having to set up a c

I think Google Drive is abstracted enough that they are not running into something basic like an inode limit... 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

ape4 4y ago
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.
denysvitali 4y ago
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...