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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-07-25 16:09:23 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-07-25 16:09:23 -0400 |
| commit | 2b9e3d5ca89f88fbcae237270e95c592e3ce3bc1 (patch) | |
| tree | 16a9f352bd52510964766d771bb812c169fbaa38 /doc/internals | |
| parent | acbd521c0e7fd7176775378845ff8f4f65bf20c0 (diff) | |
use same hash directories for chunked key as are used for its parent
This avoids a proliferation of hash directories when using new-style
chunking, and should improve performance since chunks are accessed
in sequence and so should have a common locality.
Of course, when a chunked key is encrypted, its hash directories have no
relation to the parent key.
This commit was sponsored by Christian Kellermann.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/internals')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/internals/hashing.mdwn | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/internals/hashing.mdwn b/doc/internals/hashing.mdwn index cc4bc6456..bdc259b63 100644 --- a/doc/internals/hashing.mdwn +++ b/doc/internals/hashing.mdwn @@ -36,3 +36,8 @@ string, but where that would normally encode the bits using the 16 characters 0-9a-f, this instead uses the 32 characters "0123456789zqjxkmvwgpfZQJXKMVWGPF". The first 2 letters of the resulting string are the first directory, and the second 2 are the second directory. + +## chunk keys + +The same hash directory is used for a chunk key as would be used for the +key that it's a chunk of. |