> 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?
Well, I'm sure we'd all be thrilled if AFS zipped through
a 20,000 member /afs/<cell>/users/<username> with lightening
speed. So any of this dividing business is a kluge, at least
with hesiod we can (mostly) hide it from our users.
> 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.
It's the strawberries, see, that's where I had them...
Anyway, all things considered, a directory with 20 entries
just is faster than one entries rather than 317 or even 89.
I don't suppose the fact that the two original AFS-knowing
people here had usernames 'martin' and 'john' had any effect...
~~ ~~
John
