[weird-eye-issue]

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

[denysvitali]

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...

[ape4]

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.