Re: number of dirs

On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 09:14:06AM +0200, Florin Andrei wrote:
> visolve cache wrote:
> Got it.
>
> Another one: what can be the consequences of overestimate the number of
> dirs? Say, what can happen if i put 256 first-level and 256 second-level
> (or 254/254, as someone said it's optimal for Linux) but i really don't
> need that much, because i have a small cache? In what way will be Squid
> affected?

Empty directories on disk, which never end up getting filled, and
therefore wasted inodes and disk blocks; in this case, it would
presumably be 255*256 empty directories. Not a disaster, but less
room left for real content.
  -- Clifton

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