On 08-Aug-99 Andreas Mixich: wrote
> Hello Julia,
>
> this is my answer to "[voyager] Re: http://v3.vapor.com/" from
> "07-Aug-1999 09:18:47" in a Mail.
> You wrote:
>
>
>> That's a useful tip. Perhaps you can also explain how those cache
>> directories work. I had thought maybe related pages would be in one
>> directory but in fact they're all over the place. And what happens id
>> if manually delete all those little alphabetically named directories.
>> can one start from scratch again?
>
> I don't know anything about the cache. Sorry
The CIX* directories form a so called: *hash-tree*. This is a useful way to
quickly acces one single file out of thousands. If all those files would be
in a single directory, it could take minutes just to open one file. It works
now the following way:
- you calculate a number which must be between 0 and 256 (0 and 0xff in Hex)
the number is probably calculated from the filename and/or the URL
- you only have to look in the directory with this number
which is much quicker because there are less files in that directory.
(Am I right Olli?)
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Willi Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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