I've received a couple responses so far, with all of the using
a similar tree structure. I'll summarize by tomorrow.
Daniel
>From daniel:
>
>
> We're finalizing our user directory tree structure, and would like
> to know what other large sites are doing. We're thinking of
> making a directory off the top called user, and then two levels of
> subdirectories based on the first two letters of the person's
> username.
>
> For example, username 'daniel' would be in
>
> user/d/a/daniel
>
> Username 'mark29' would be in
>
> user/m/a/mark29
>
> With 60,000 users, we need a sensible way to distribute the users
> so that we don't end up with very large directories. Yet we need
> to balance that with ease of navigation for our users.
>
> Would anyone share how they manage the user space?
>
> Daniel
>
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