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25 Oct
2005
25 Oct
'05
6:08 p.m.
On 10/24/05 5:28 PM, "Brad Knowles" <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote:
Base-64 would let you get two characters creating no more than 4096 hash subdirectories, and you can see the numbers above for the likely reduction in the number of grandchild subdirectories/files.
Base 64 isn't a good idea for code which might run on case-insensitive file systems (eg Cygwin or Mac OS X). Base 36 would seem safer if this code is going to go into the official Mailman release sometime (which is probably a good idea).
--John