From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jaap Suter Subject: Re: Storing Large Flat Namespaces Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 04:26:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <21d738060809071858p703149ccmbec0276ad4ad8f88@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 08 06:31:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KcYPP-00042E-NK for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:31:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751265AbYIHEaL (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 00:30:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751254AbYIHEaL (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 00:30:11 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:41614 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751138AbYIHEaK (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 00:30:10 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KcYO3-0001dr-3s for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:30:03 +0000 Received: from S0106001346cd705f.vc.shawcable.net ([24.81.24.155]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:30:03 +0000 Received: from git by S0106001346cd705f.vc.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:30:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.81.24.155 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.29 Safari/525.13) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > I'm investigating the possibility of using Git to store a large flat > namespace. As an example, imagine a single directory containing > thousands or millions of files, each named using a 16-byte guid, > evenly distributed. I realize that an obvious suggestion may be to figure out if there is a way to leverage the internal structure of the files to create a more Git-friendly tree layout. Unfortunately the internal structure is largely opaque to me, and highly dynamic. Thanks, Jaap