On 3/15/07, John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com> wrote:
> Of course, knowing this, as a rule I never open large directories in
> Explorer, but use a Command Prompt instead. It's still painfully slow
> to get a directory here, because DIR insists on sorting the files
> (rather than returning them in filesystem order).
And, doing an ls in a directory 500k+ files in it even on Unix is no
fun either. I think we're sort of straying from the point here - for
those high-volume repositories (like Apache, etc.), sharding is a way
to reduce inode exhaustion in directories - not eliminate the issues.
5k (just to keep it power of 10) seems like a good cut-off. 1k is far
too small as apache.org is going to zoom by 1 million revs soon
enough.
So, in other words, I couldn't care less about what the folders look
like on Win32 - to focus on that exclusively is to be beside the point
- *most* serious large-scale repositories probably aren't going to be
on Win32. They can, but then those admins aren't likely to be foolish
enough to browse the directories with Explorer on a regular basis - I
claim that we should assert that whomever is admining that large of a
repository probably has a modicum of clue to understand what's going
on here.
My $.02. -- justin
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Received on Thu Mar 15 21:25:03 2007