Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 13:37:08 +0200, Dan Pascu wrote: >> Yes it does, but it is not a viable solution to have to constantly >> run darcs optimize when you have too many files, from fearing that >> you may exceed them and get an error. Not to mention the slowness a >> flattened directory with that many files will introduce anyway. > > I wonder if it would make sense for a future version of hashed > pristine [...] storing the dirs as > > _darcs/pristine/0 > _darcs/pristine/1 > ... > etc
That's what is done for /home on large sites: instead of /home/fred, you have /home/f/fred or /home/f/r/fred. You use enough depth to avoid the filesystem hard limit. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
