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From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 00/14] git notes
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:23:11 +0200
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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?