On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Rich Sudlow wrote:
| 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.
Its also a lot easier for users to understand. I'd recommend against
the 'balanced hash' approach. It may be technically correct, but probably
less practical. It would seem to me that its unlikely that you're going
to encounter such a glut of userids with the same first two characters
that you'd encounter directory lookup problems. If you do find such a
concentration emerging for some reason, you can always disallow any more
usernames in that bucket. :-)
-bws
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