Striping a directory in lustre

What exactly happens when a directory has a default layout in lustre? As far as I know, if a directory has a default layout then whatever striping parameters are set for the directory are applied to the files created in that directory (unless mentioned explicitly). However, I tried for it but could not see that. I mentioned the stripe count for directory=2 (lfs setstripe -c 2 /mnt/lustre/directory), and created the file inside it using lfs setstripe /mnt/lustre/directory/file1 but when I do lfs getstripe /mnt/lustre/directory/file1 I could see stripe count=1. Why is it so?