Re: Updated disc cache

On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:30:14PM +0100, netsurf@avisoft.f9.co.uk wrote:
> In article <54ae82a927chris@chris-johnson.org.uk>,
> cj <chris@chris-johnson.org.uk> wrote:
> > I can see why RISC OS gets indigestion with the cache. Have just
> > deleted the cache on the Iyonix, and there were over 21,000
> > directories and over 19,000 files.
>
> Yes, there seem to be lots of directories - many empty. The non-empty
> ones often only contain directories. And the ones containing files rarely
> have more than 1 file in!
>
> Strikes me that there are too many directory levels. Insetad of having
> !Cache.Caches.Default.NetSurf.m.A.3.G.A3GKETD
> it may be better to have
> !Cache.Caches.Default.NetSurf.mA3G.A3GKETD
>
> I suspect much of the delay for small files is due to checking, creating,
> and traversing directories!

The depth was chosen so it would work on poor-quality file systems that
only allow a handful of entries in a directory, such as FileCore :)

B.