Re: Updated disc cache

In article <20150403131050.GQ29270@platypus.pepperfish.net>,
Rob Kendrick <rjek@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> 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 :)

It is a shame that there is no simple way to discover if 'big
directories' are being used with no such limitations, as they have been
here for many many years.

Martin