[LU-1388] Maximum Number of Files per Directory

Tue, 8 May 2012 11:05:01 +0000

Both the 1.8 and 2.1 manuals say the following in section 33.8.

Maximum Number of Files or
Subdirectories in a Single Directory
Lustre uses the ext3 hashed directory code, which has a limit of about 25 million files.
On reaching this limit, the directory grows to more than 2 GB depending on the
length of the filenames. The limit on subdirectories is the same as the limit on regular
files in all later versions of Lustre due to a small ext3 format change.

Is this still accurate? Isn't Lustre using ext4 by default, so shouldn't the limit be higher?

What is the limit now for 1.8.7 and 2.1.x ?

Thanks.

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[LU-1388] Maximum Number of Files per Directory