[OpenAFS] Re: why afs backup is so poorly supported

[Adam Megacz]

"chas williams - CONTRACTOR" <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:
> afs's namei based filesystem could provide a more familiar layout
> of the files.  however, i suspect the designers choose the current
> structure to avoid creating single directories with huge numbers of
> files.  most filesystems dont handle this well.

Well, I think it's fair to insist that the underlying filesystem
efficiently handle as many files-per-directory as you find in actual
AFS filespace (that is, if you have 10,000 files in /afs/foo/bar/,
it's fair to insist that the underlying filesystem cope with a
10,000-file directory).

But if you're using the FS as a block-storage mechanism, then yes,
what the namei server does is the right solution.  Most web browser
caches (Safari, Mozilla) work this way too.

  - a

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