[OpenAFS-devel] Large Caches: Implementation Discussion

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
17 Jul 2001 17:20:51 -0400


Sam Hartman <hartmans@mekinok.com> writes:

> I think the option should be based on how the user will think about
> the problem.  Do you really believe that users think more in terms of
> number of bits in a hash function than number of directories or number
> of files per directory?

Ok.

Besides, I was just sent some really cool code to do this
conversion, so I'll change it to take the number of files.
Should it round down or up?  Easiest it to always round down.

-derek

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