Although the conversion process to Unicode directory format is automatic, the initial conversion of a directory can take considerable time, especially if the directory contains a large number of files.
For example, converting a directory of 100,000 files takes the filer about 9 minutes on a NetApp F540. It is important to take these conversion times into consideration when deciding when to convert the directories. While a directory is being converted, the filer might not be able to perform any other file system or network operations until the conversion is complete.
If there are portions of the directory tree that will never have CIFS access, there is no need to convert them. However, any future CIFS access to an unconverted directory immediately triggers its conversion.
If you have a directory that contains more than 50,000 files, before triggering a conversion, you can use an NFS client to distribute files among a greater number of subdirectories. This speeds up the conversion process and avoids a possible crash.
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