Question

Hello

Why is the following setting for {RCS}{useSubDir} not recommended ? as suggested in bin/configure

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Set this if you want to use RCS subdirectories instead of storing ,v files alongside the topics. Not recommended.


{RCS}{useSubDir}

Given that large directories could be problematic it would seem that using them would be a good idea.

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-- PeterJones - 03 Mar 2008

Answer

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There are a number of known bugs. In today's release meeting we discussed to remove that feature because hardly anyone uses this configuration, and we do not have a committed developers to fix the issues.

It might be better to tune the file system for better performance, see http://ygingras.net/b/2007/12/too-many-files%3A-reiser-fs-vs-hashed-paths

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Mar 2008