On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Andrew Barchuk <and...@raindev.io> wrote: > I don't see a reason to organize distfiles in a > multi-level hierarchy: e.g. if the goal is to keep no more than 1000 > files in a folder than the limit of single level hierarchy is a million > which is more than enough for foreseeable future. The list of 500 > directories takes 15kB when using full file names and will be couple of > times smaller when using only unique prefixes.
Then don't. Using one level of first-4-characters-of-filename-hash is still more efficient.
