[darcs-users] hashed repository issue

[Trent W. Buck]

Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 13:37:08 +0200, Dan Pascu wrote:
>> Yes it does, but it is not a viable solution to have to constantly
>> run darcs optimize when you have too many files, from fearing that
>> you may exceed them and get an error. Not to mention the slowness a
>> flattened directory with that many files will introduce anyway.
>
> I wonder if it would make sense for a future version of hashed
> pristine [...] storing the dirs as
>
>  _darcs/pristine/0
>  _darcs/pristine/1
>  ...
>  etc

That's what is done for /home on large sites:  instead of /home/fred,
you have /home/f/fred or /home/f/r/fred.  You use enough depth to avoid
the filesystem hard limit.