<para><literal>statahead_max</literal> -
Controls the maximum number of file attributes that will be
prefetched by the statahead thread. By default, statahead is
- enabled and <literal>statahead_max</literal> is 32 files.</para>
+ enabled and <literal>statahead_max</literal> is 128 files
+ (32 prior to Lustre 2.16.0).</para>
<para>To disable statahead, set <literal>statahead_max</literal>
to zero via the following command on the client:</para>
<screen>lctl set_param llite.*.statahead_max=0</screen>
<para>To change the maximum statahead window size on a client:</para>
<screen>lctl set_param llite.*.statahead_max=<replaceable>n</replaceable></screen>
- <para>The maximum <literal>statahead_max</literal> is 8192 files.
+ <para>The maximum <literal>statahead_max</literal> is 2048.
+ Prior to Lustre 2.16.0, the maximum was 512, and
+ prior to 2.12.0 and 2.10.5, it was 8192.
</para>
<para>The directory statahead thread will also prefetch the file
size/block attributes from the OSTs, so that all file attributes