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>> 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.
>
>That's how it's done here at the University of Michigan. It seems to
>work well from a user's perspective. Perhaps one of the technical
>staff here can speak to how well it works from their side?
>
That's not 8-( what we did here at Notre Dame. We instead made a number
of userN directories and just filled each directory with no more than
600 user directories and just increment the number of user directories. At
this time we can't change our directory stucture but this is NOT
the way to go.
The University of Michigan directory structure (which is the same one being
proposed) is indeed the right one to use. Given the afs_id you know
exactly where the users home directory. This is exactly what you want,
no lookups.
Rich
Rich Sudlow
Office of Information Technology
University of Notre Dame
