A scalable file system by performing logical and/or physical splitting of one or more file systems is disclosed. In one example, lock statistics associated with each file system in each node in a storage pool clustered domain are obtained from a distributed lock manager. Further, one or more file systems associated with one or more nodes in the storage pool clustered domain are broken into one or more child file systems based on the obtained lock statistics and assigned ownerships to the one or more nodes in a cluster.
