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begin  Per Abrahamsen quotation:

> Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> writes:
>> If you do add code to make these directories into some kind of
>> hierarchical hashed layout, please make it an option.
>
> Why?  Does ReiserFS and XFS perform poorly on small directories?

No.  But since they handle large ones well, I don't my want my Gnus
jumping through unnecessary hoops.  And having mail groups be a tree
of directories whose names are hex numbers offends me to some degree.

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