On Jul 20, 1:29pm, Lyle Seaman wrote:
> 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.
>
So what is an acceptable max? I whipped up a perl script to find the
directories
with the most entries if we went to a two level scheme and came up
with the following (only the top ten are shown):
211 s/t
216 b/e
216 k/a
228 c/a
231 d/a
232 m/i
235 s/a
249 s/h
326 c/h
451 m/a
That means /afs/ir.stanford.edu/users/m/a would have 451 entries (assuming
all our home directories were moved into /afs). The two level scheme seems
like the easiest to implement and easiest for the users to handle and I
think we could get by with it for a year or two when we migrate to DFS.
thanks, Roland
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