Johan Herland wrote:
>I was, however, naive enough to assume that when git.git decided on using
>2/38 fanout for its loose objects, then some performance-related thoughts
>went into that decision. If there are indications that multiple-of-2-type
I presume that that choice was based on the fact that on a typical filesystem
(e.g. ext2 old-style) without directory indexing, the sort-of optimal fanout
should aim for no more than 100-200 directory entries per directory.
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Stephen R. van den Berg.
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