[ome-devel] OMEIS/Files/* Structure

[Joshua Moore]

Chris Allan wrote:

>> It's not so much that I want to change it, but I might like to to know
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>>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?
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>Performance of what?
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this value (k=1000) balances directory depth versus width. I'm pretty 
sure that the setting has no real impact, but why 10^3 and not 2 or 4? 
(Ok, 4 is getting obviously too high. 1?)

Josh