[pmwiki-users] Re: Per-group subdirectories in wiki.d/

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:34:36PM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> Things can get pretty slow though. I don't know whether NTFS is in the 
> O(log N) category, but ext2 and ext3 are in the O(N) category AFAIK. 
> That's the reason why installations like SourceForge have their home 
> directory structure set up like
>   /home/a/ant
>   /home/a/atlas
>   ...
>   /home/b/...
> (I think SF even uses several levels of single-letter directories to 
> keep directories to a reasonable size).

BTW, PmWiki 2 is purposely designed such that we *can* add the same
type of directory hierarchy if it's ever needed.

Pm