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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?

Gnus will be less robust if it has to support mutiple filesystem
layouts, so there has to be some real advantage to make up for that.