From: Stephen R. van den Berg Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:23:11 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 00/14] git notes Message-ID: <20090910062311.GA27466@cuci.nl> In-Reply-To: <200909090046.45213.johan@herland.net> Johan Herland wrote: >I was, however, naive enough to assume that when git.git decided on using >2/38 fanout for its loose objects, then some performance-related thoughts >went into that decision. If there are indications that multiple-of-2-type I presume that that choice was based on the fact that on a typical filesystem (e.g. ext2 old-style) without directory indexing, the sort-of optimal fanout should aim for no more than 100-200 directory entries per directory. -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg. Mommy, what happens to your files when you die?