OneDrive for Business maximum file limitation?

[gj80]

Hi,

 

I'm doing some research regarding possibly deploying this for some of our serverless clients that want a mobile shared document repository. I had one question though...

 

My understanding from research I did a few months back was that onedrive for business has a "20,000 item sync limit". And sharepoint team libraries have a 5,000 item limit. This is an issue for a lot of our users that have more files than that. Does clouddrive inherit the same limitation, or is the way files are stored (by chunk?) block-based and thus doesn't run into that?

Oh, a few more questions...

Backups - when using clouddrive, is running a backup from a computer the most practical solution for backups, or is one of the cloud-based backup services for 365/sharepoint also viable? Does clouddrive support VSS?

Change management - when multiple people edit a file, how is it determined which version is committed? The last one committed takes precedence?
Edit: on second thought, I think I may have gotten the wrong idea about this - this is entirely a personal drive, right? No sharing? Still curious about the file limitation/backups though.

 

Thanks!

[Christopher (Drashna)]

I'll have to flag Alex (the developer) for clarification here, but I am pretty sure that we don't suffer the same limitation (or at least have worked around this, specifically).

And yes, the solution is blocked based, so the larger the block sizes, the less files are used on the provider (but the longer it may take to grab specific chunks).

 

This is specifically because SharePoint is the actual backend for this, IIRC. 

 

 

As for the drive itself, it should appears a normal disk, and yes, VSS should work on it. 

 

 

 

Change management - when multiple people edit a file, how is it determined which version is committed? The last one committed takes precedence?

Edit: on second thought, I think I may have gotten the wrong idea about this - this is entirely a personal drive, right? No sharing? Still curious about the file limitation/backups though.

Yes, this is more of a "personal" think. Each drive can only be mounted by one person at a time. It's not meant to be shared between multiple people at the same time. 

[juararob]

Hello,

 

             Regarding the 20.000 files limitation, with a maximum chunk size of 100 Mb, that give us a theoretical maxium drive of 2 TB. Can you consider rise de chunk size to 1 GB, 10 GB or even 100 GB for this provider?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

To clarify here, the 20k file limitation is with the sync client for OneDrive for Business, and not for the provider itself. 

 

I'm not sure of the reason for the technical limitation here ,but it definitely doesn't affect StableBit DrivePool.  

IIRC, there is a limit to number of files per folder, and this has already been accounted for/worked around (by using subfolders).

 

There should be no limitation to the size of the drive that you can create on the OneDrive for Business account (aside from the available storage limit).