From: Paul Jackson <pj@engr.sgi.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, ahu@ds9a.nl, git@chrisli.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Yet another base64 patch
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:58:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050414205831.01039ee8.pj@engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <425F13C9.5090109@zytor.com>
Earlier, hpa wrote:
> The base64 version has 2^12 subdirectories instead of 2^8 (I just used 2
> characters as the hash key just like the hex version.)
Later, hpa wrote:
> Ultimately the question is: do we care about old (broken) filesystems?
I'd imagine we care a little - just not alot.
I'd think that going to 2^12 subdirectories, which with 2^12 entries per
subdirectory gets us to 16 million files before the leaf directories get
bigger than the parent, is a good tradeoff.
--
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Paul Jackson <pj@engr.sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-15 3:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-14 4:19 Yet another base64 patch H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 2:24 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-14 5:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 2:42 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-14 6:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 6:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 7:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 16:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 17:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 19:11 ` bert hubert
2005-04-14 19:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 21:47 ` bert hubert
2005-04-15 0:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-15 1:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-17 4:10 ` David Lang
2005-04-18 6:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-15 1:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-15 3:58 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2005-04-17 3:53 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-17 4:05 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-17 6:38 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-17 8:16 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-17 17:51 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-17 18:19 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-18 5:13 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-18 12:59 ` Kevin Smith
2005-04-18 16:42 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-17 14:30 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-17 16:29 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-14 4:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 8:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 17:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-15 23:55 ` Paul Dickson
2005-04-18 6:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
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