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dirhash DEPTH SIZE

Specifies the depth of directory hashing. This is used for physical filesystems that cannot handle huge numbers of files in a single directory.

When generating a filename from a binary string such as a Hash, for a DEPTH of $N$, the first $N$ groups of SIZE hexadecimal digits are used as nested directory names.

For example, at DEPTH $3$ and SIZE $1$, the empty file, using an MD5 hash, would have a filename like `d/4/1/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e'.



Zygo Blaxell 2003-03-04