Re: number of dirs

From: Kendall Lister <kendall@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:28:39 +1100 (EST)

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Kevin Hancock wrote:

> My only question with this all is the default for a 100 Mb is 16 first
> level and 256 second level. Using this formula
>
> 100 * 2 / 13 / 256 / 256
>
> so we have a level 1 of 1
> Why is the default 16?

Presumably to allow people to jack up the cache_dir size without having to
fiddle around with or even understand the sub-directory structure; 16 *
256 should support a pretty large partition.

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