[ome-devel] OMEIS/Files/* Structure

[Joshua Moore]

Tomasz Macura wrote:

> The OMEIS documentation from 
> http://www.openmicroscopy.org/api/omeis/implementation.html answers 
> your first question:

 i.e. RTFM. Thanks, Tom.

> As written above, the directories are created every 1000 files. Its 
> hardcoded:
>
> [lappy-toppy:src/C/omeis] tmacur1% grep -rn "1000" *.c *.h
> repository.c:194: chunks[nChunks] = remaining % 1000;
> repository.c:195: remaining = (remaining - chunks[nChunks++]) / 1000;

Good pointer. I can dive in here.

> Why would you want to change it?

It's not so much that I want to change it, but I might like to to know 
when it's happening (for balancing space allocation before we get a 
parallel file system.) But while we're on the subject, did anyone ever 
test this setting for performance?

-Josh.