Re: Home directory layouts...

[Lyle Seaman]

I forwarded John Hascall's mail to the list since it actually was of
general interest.  I thought maybe he was just running into an old bug. 

Anyway, John writes: 
Excerpts from transarc.external.info-afs: 19-Jul-94 Re: Home directory
layouts... Lyle Seaman (2001) 

> Well, in my mind, that scheme is a kluge, but for those without 
>      a naming service (like Hesiod or someday perhaps DCE CDS) I 
>      can see why it has some appeal. 

More of a kludge than splitting up the UID? 

Excerpts from transarc.external.info-afs: 19-Jul-94 Re: Home directory
layouts... Lyle Seaman (2001) 

>      Now, the question is how to achieve an even balancing of users 
     among these directories. 

I don't see why they need to be balanced evenly.  I suspect that's
compulsivity, but maybe you can justify it?  It seems to me that
everything is hunky-dory so long as the max is acceptably low.