Number of Folder/Directories in any filesystem level on HP-UX (VxFsS 3.5, 4.1 and 5.0)?

[Alzhy]

Is there a limit?

We have a Windows (ntfs of course) Filesystem that we can no longer navigate succesfully that reportedly contains over 64K directory entries at some "directory" level. When we migrated it to a NAS (Linux based) -- we could not copy as the NAS complained of breaching that limit.

We'er plannig to test moving the filesystem instead to an HP-UX hosted CIFS/NFS presented VxFS (Online JFS) filesystem. Is there such a limit?

I know on ZFS there is no such limit bt we hate bringing in a new OS to the mix.

[TTr]

The inodes in VxFS are unlimited and only limited by available disk space. You should check if CIFS and NFS have any limit in passing the inodes as well. I could not find any.
Before you give up on your Linux filesystem, I don't know any details on it but if it is like hfs maybe the number of inodes can be controlled and increased during newfs/mkfs. Take a look at the man pages or search for inodes in the filesystem type that you used in Linux.