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"Josh England" <jjengla@sandia.gov> writes:

> That's ok.  Any place to store the data is fine by me.  I'm just
> concerned about some comments I saw in attrs.c <line13>:
> /*
> The basic design decision here is that we are not going to have insanely
> large number of attributes.
> This is a randomly chosen prime.
> */
> #define HASHSIZE 257

That talks about the size of the vocabulary of attribute names,
such as "diff", "crlf", "merge".  IIRC, you need two more
(owner, perm) or maybe three (group), not 150k.