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A penguin overwhelmed by an avalanche of tiny blue small files spilling out of index drawers and overflowing a bucket, illustrating MinIO under a lots-of-small-files workload
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MinIO and Lots of Small Files: Why It’s Not a Database, and Why That Matters

MinIO was not built for Lots of Small Files (LOSF). No global index, no read repair, and a scanner that can take weeks to notice silent corruption. Here is what breaks, why tiering makes it worse, and when you should use a database instead.

By jlu, 2 weeks2026-06-29 ago
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