Tag: LOSF

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

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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Stop using MinIO as a NoSQL database — why S3 object stores collapse on small-file workloads

Two MinIO platforms, same root cause: used as a NoSQL store. Field notes on LIST IOPS, XFS directory limits, scanner & heal SLAs, the erasure-coding storage-efficiency inversion on small objects, and why Apache Cassandra (or Ceph) is the right answer on-prem in 2026.

By jlu, 2 months2026-05-17 ago