Here is the summary I promised. I still don't understand why you
wouldn't want to create buckets with a fixed number of homes in
each(usr/bucket01..bucketNN/username) in combination with a
users/u/s/username symlink to the actual home. This buys you a
balanced distribution of the homes with a convenient way to find a
home directory. We need a solution that is convenient to both NT/95
users as well as UNIX.
I. users/d/a/daniel model
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- University of Michigan
- Penn State University
- Dartmouth
- Michigan State University(100k users) would have prefered user/d/da/daniel
- Stanford University(27k users)
- Notre Dame - would like to change from buckets to users/d/a/daniel model.
- ANS Communications
- University of Alberta(40k users)
- University of Pittsburgh(55k users) - currently using hashed directory
structure, but strongly recommends *against* this. Would like to
move to users/d/a/daniel structure but conversion would be
challenging.
II. Use of Hash buckets for even distribution of users across
directories.
- Austin, IBM - using symlinks like users/d/a/daniel which point to hashed dir
- Iowa State - uses Hesiod for naming service(cd ~username)
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