Re: [BackupPC-devel] BackupPC 4.0 features - pool structure

[Fresel M. - hi c. e.U. <m.f...@hi...>]

re to Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <backuppc@ko...> -	2011-03-03 02:53

> I wonder whether here too, it may be best to allow for a configurable
> depth to the pool. This would not change the actual pool file names
> but just how many levels they are distributed across.
> 
> Then for small installations, one might choose just 2 levels but for
> truly humongous installations, it might be better to have 3 or even
> more levels. Presumably, different filesystems and hardware would also
> influence this tradeoff.
> 
> It would seem that it wouldn't be too hard to modify the code to allow
> this to be a user configurable parameter.

Would be a nice to have :)
3 or 4 Levels would make per directory copy operations smaller 

Greetings 
Mike