[Ocfs2-users] Using OCFS2 for heavy I/O

[Robinson Maureira Castillo]

Hi all,

I have to evaluate OCFS2 for a mail cluster, and reviewing at the docs, it says that it  can't hold more than 32000 subdirectories, this is a per-level limit? And what about files?

This application uses directory hashing for user storage, so eventually, we'll end up with millions of directories and millions of files, usually small (< 16KB), but I guess we never get over this limit in a directory level, at least not for directories.

Currently we're splitting the FS in 1TB vdisks, our storage system is HP EVA 8000.

Can OCFS2 be used in this scenario? Or when is planned to kill that subdirectory limit?

TIA and best regards,

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