Re: Sharded FSFS repositories

Malcolm Rowe wrote:
> My results:
> - With one exception, sharding is always more expensive than not
> sharding (because it adds an extra directory lookup). The difference
> is negligible, however, because we're still talking about microseconds
> per lookup.

Thank you for taking the time to benchmark something, rather than
relying on Magic Numbers (something I'm severely allergic to). ;-)

> - We'll create shards of 1000 entries each. Anyone who has a repository
> that's larger than a million revisions will likely be running on a
> decent filesystem. Even if they aren't, we will still be much better
> than we were before.

I concur that this is a reasonable course. Malcolm++

John

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