What is the meaning of inodes limitation?

[mdbaniani]

Hello. I’m seeing a limitation in cpanel sidebar stating : “Inodes Used” which is limited to ~ 30,000. does this mean I can not upload more than ~ 30,000 files per account?

[KangJL]

In short, yes

[ChrisPAR]

What does the inode limit mean

One of the limits in the control panel is the inode limit. What is it, and what happens when you reach it? What is an inode? In short: every file and directory on your hosting account is an inode. Unix-like systems, like Linux and macOS, use inodes to store information about files and directories. Every file and directory on a computer has an inode. A file system has limited number of inodes it can store, and the more inodes are on a system, the longer it takes to look up files. So too many in…