No. Data is mostly accessed using XRootD[1] which can be used to data from an (almost) unlimited number of nodes. So far as I know, it's optimised for large fil

No. Data is mostly accessed using XRootD[1] which can be used to data from an (almost) unlimited number of nodes. So far as I know, it's optimised for large files so the number of available inodes is limited by RAM. There is also EOS[2] which is based on XRootD and is planned to replace AFS[3] as a general purpose networked filesystem. [1] http://xrootd.org/ http://xrootd.org/ [2] http://eos.web.cern.ch/ http://eos.web.cern.ch/ [3] http://information-technology.web.cern.ch/services/afs-service http://information-technology.web.cern.ch/services/afs-servi...