Hi Avati, I was trying to create 4098 * 4098 = 16777216 directories on glusterfs using shell script. After some time I got following error in client's log file. What dose this means? Is there any numbers of directory limit? TLA Repo Revision: glusterfs--mainline--2.5--patch-676 Time : 2008-02-21 20:17:57 Signal Number : 6 /lib64/libc.so.6[0x3950a300b0] /lib64/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x35)[0x3950a30055] /lib64/libc.so.6(abort+0x110)[0x3950a31af0] /lib64/libc.so.6[0x3950a6824b] /lib64/libc.so.6(cfree+0x1b6)[0x3950a72c46] /usr/local/lib/libglusterfs.so.0(dict_destroy+0x32)[0x2aaaaaac0b52] /usr/local/lib/libglusterfs.so.0[0x2aaaaaacbea6] /usr/local/lib/libglusterfs.so.0(inode_unref+0x58)[0x2aaaaaacbfc8] [glusterfs][0x407d63] [glusterfs][0x40361b] /lib64/libpthread.so.0[0x39516062f7] /lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)[0x3950ace85d] --------- Rohan