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On 4/22/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> >
> > However you're right that the original structure proposed by Linus is
> > too flat.
> 
> You're wrong.
> 
> The thing is, having 256 sybdirectories already eats one _megabyte_ of
> diskspace on common filessystems. If you expand that to be either deeper
> (ie subdirectories within subdirectories), or use more than 8 bits for the
> first level, you'll be using much more.
> 
> A megabyte of diskspace is peanuts for a project like Linux, but I think
> it matters for small projects. I want git to work reasonably even for
> really trivial stuff.
> 
> For example, if you just expand the fan-out to use 12 bits instead of 8,
> you're now using 16MB of diskspace just for the directory structure, even
> for a trivially small project. I just think that sucks.

What if the directory structure is sparse?