From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Yet another base64 patch Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:28:24 +1000 Message-ID: <42635388.90207@zytor.com> References: <425DEF64.60108@zytor.com> <20050415165532.05ed5dc4.paul@permanentmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 18 08:24:57 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNPga-00087z-Ev for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:24:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261695AbVDRG2j (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 02:28:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261795AbVDRG2j (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 02:28:39 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:32397 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261695AbVDRG2h (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 02:28:37 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.101] ([150.203.164.151]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3I6SUfB008005 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 23:28:33 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Paul Dickson In-Reply-To: <20050415165532.05ed5dc4.paul@permanentmail.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Paul Dickson wrote: > > Since 160-bits does not go into base64 evenly anyways, what happens if > you use 2^10 instead of 2^12 for the subdir names? That will be 1/4 the > directories of the base64 given above. > I was going to try one-character subdirs, so 2^6, but I haven't had a chance to do that since I'm at LCA. Anyway, I'm starting to suspect it's too late to change the format, especially since Linus seems highly disinclined. -hpa