Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!emv From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: small files and big directories (was hard links to symlinks) Message-ID: Date: 27 May 90 19:27:51 GMT References: <874@nlsun1.oracle.nl> <1990May9.171340.5351@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <1709@cirrusl.UUCP> <24523@mimsy.umd.edu> <11372@drilex.UUCP> Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: dricejb@drilex.UUCP's message of 25 May 90 19:20:26 GMT (bix has plenty of users) > all of those '..' links killed it. So, some midnight (literally) > programming was done, and the next day joeuser's per-user files > were in users/j/joeuser, rather than users/joeuser. That got them > going again, but they still had the wall at 26,000 users to worry > about. the umich.edu afs cell has taken this one step further -- my account there is users/e/m/emv. unfortunately the top /afs level is totally flat, I expect that'll change as more and more cells come on line on some horrible and painful re-naming day. one world, one filesystem -- did I hear "one vendor" too? --Ed Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept "security through diversity"