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 <[email protected]> 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
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