But heaven help you if you export the gpfs on nfs or cifs. -- ddj Dave Johnson > On Aug 23, 2018, at 11:23 AM, Marc A Kaplan <makaplan at us.ibm.com> wrote: > > Millions of files per directory, may well be a mistake... > > BUT there are some very smart use cases that might take advantage of GPFS having good performance with large directories -- > because GPFS uses extensible hashing -- it is better to store millions of files in a single GPFS directory than artificially scatter them among directories based on the mistaken notion that large directories are bad. (Yeah, they are in most implementations, but not in GPFS.) > > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20180823/13810d4f/attachment.html>