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From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
To: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	trast@student.ethz.ch, tavestbo@trolltech.com,
	git@drmicha.warpmail.net, chriscool@tuxfamily.org,
	spearce@spearce.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 00/14] git notes
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:23:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090910062311.GA27466@cuci.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909090046.45213.johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland wrote:
>I was, however, naive enough to assume that when git.git decided on using 
>2/38 fanout for its loose objects, then some performance-related thoughts
>went into that decision. If there are indications that multiple-of-2-type 

I presume that that choice was based on the fact that on a typical filesystem
(e.g. ext2 old-style) without directory indexing, the sort-of optimal fanout
should aim for no more than 100-200 directory entries per directory.
-- 
Sincerely,
           Stephen R. van den Berg.

Mommy, what happens to your files when you die?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-10  6:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-08  2:26 [PATCHv5 00/14] git notes Johan Herland
2009-09-08  2:26 ` [PATCHv5 01/14] Introduce commit notes Johan Herland
2009-09-08  2:26 ` [PATCHv5 02/14] Add a script to edit/inspect notes Johan Herland
2009-09-08  2:26 ` [PATCHv5 03/14] Speed up git notes lookup Johan Herland
2009-09-08  2:26 ` [PATCHv5 04/14] Add an expensive test for git-notes Johan Herland
2009-09-08  2:26 ` [PATCHv5 05/14] Teach "-m <msg>" and "-F <file>" to "git notes edit" Johan Herland
2009-09-08  2:26 ` [PATCHv5 06/14] fast-import: Add support for importing commit notes Johan Herland
2009-09-08  2:26 ` [PATCHv5 07/14] t3302-notes-index-expensive: Speed up create_repo() Johan Herland
2009-09-08  2:26 ` [PATCHv5 08/14] Add flags to get_commit_notes() to control the format of the note string Johan Herland
2009-09-08  2:26 ` [PATCHv5 09/14] Add '%N'-format for pretty-printing commit notes Johan Herland
2009-09-08  2:26 ` [PATCHv5 10/14] Teach notes code to free its internal data structures on request Johan Herland
2009-09-08  2:26 ` [PATCHv5 11/14] Teach the notes lookup code to parse notes trees with various fanout schemes Johan Herland
2009-09-08  2:27 ` [PATCHv5 12/14] Selftests verifying semantics when loading notes trees with various fanouts Johan Herland
2009-09-08  2:27 ` [PATCHv5 13/14] Allow flexible organization of notes trees, using both commit date and SHA1 Johan Herland
2009-09-08  2:27 ` [PATCHv5 14/14] Add test cases for date-based fanouts Johan Herland
2009-09-08  3:12 ` [PATCHv5 00/14] git notes Johan Herland
2009-09-08  4:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-08  8:54     ` Johan Herland
2009-09-08  9:32       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-09-08 12:36         ` Johan Herland
2009-09-08 15:53           ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-09-08 22:46             ` Johan Herland
2009-09-10  6:23               ` Stephen R. van den Berg [this message]
2009-09-10  9:25           ` Johan Herland
2009-09-08 20:31         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-08 21:10           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-09-08 21:36             ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-08 21:39               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-09-08 21:57                 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-08 21:40           ` Johan Herland
2009-09-12 15:50   ` Johan Herland
2009-09-12 18:11     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-09-12 18:35       ` Johan Herland
2009-09-10 14:00 ` Geert Bosch
2009-09-10 14:09   ` Michael J Gruber
2009-09-10 14:12     ` Geert Bosch
2009-09-12  0:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-12 15:52   ` Johan Herland
2009-09-12 16:08     ` [PATCHv6 " Johan Herland
2009-09-12 16:08     ` [PATCHv6 01/14] Introduce commit notes Johan Herland
2009-09-12 16:08     ` [PATCHv6 02/14] Add a script to edit/inspect notes Johan Herland
2009-09-12 16:08     ` [PATCHv6 03/14] Speed up git notes lookup Johan Herland
2009-09-12 16:08     ` [PATCHv6 04/14] Add an expensive test for git-notes Johan Herland
2009-09-12 16:08     ` [PATCHv6 05/14] Teach "-m <msg>" and "-F <file>" to "git notes edit" Johan Herland
2009-09-12 16:08     ` [PATCHv6 06/14] fast-import: Add support for importing commit notes Johan Herland
2009-09-12 16:08     ` [PATCHv6 07/14] t3302-notes-index-expensive: Speed up create_repo() Johan Herland
2009-09-12 16:08     ` [PATCHv6 08/14] Add flags to get_commit_notes() to control the format of the note string Johan Herland
2009-09-12 16:08     ` [PATCHv6 09/14] Add '%N'-format for pretty-printing commit notes Johan Herland
2009-09-12 16:08     ` [PATCHv6 10/14] Teach notes code to free its internal data structures on request Johan Herland
2009-09-12 18:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-12 22:21         ` Johan Herland
2009-09-12 16:08     ` [PATCHv6 11/14] Teach the notes lookup code to parse notes trees with various fanout schemes Johan Herland
2009-09-12 16:08     ` [PATCHv6 12/14] Selftests verifying semantics when loading notes trees with various fanouts Johan Herland
2009-09-12 16:08     ` [PATCHv6 13/14] Allow flexible organization of notes trees, using both commit date and SHA1 Johan Herland
2009-09-12 18:41       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-12 22:33         ` Johan Herland
2009-09-12 23:37           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-12 16:08     ` [PATCHv6 14/14] Add test cases for various date-based fanouts Johan Herland

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