Very likely true, but I don’t see how’s that related.
>they start to have pathologies when you have many entries in the same directory
Only true for inefficient filesystems like FAT.
For NTFS, 16k entries is nothing, the performance fill start to degrade (due to directory fragmentation) at around 100k entries:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/291292/126995
>"just buy another server for this one project" sounds like something CocoaPods should pay for.
I don’t think that’s how 21 century economy works in this case.
Github’s value is likely between $0.75B and $2B.
Bad PR caused by this story will exceed 10 years TCO of that extra server.
Very likely true, but I don’t see how’s that related.
>they start to have pathologies when you have many entries in the same directory
Only true for inefficient filesystems like FAT.
For NTFS, 16k entries is nothing, the performance fill start to degrade (due to directory fragmentation) at around 100k entries: http://stackoverflow.com/a/291292/126995
>"just buy another server for this one project" sounds like something CocoaPods should pay for.
I don’t think that’s how 21 century economy works in this case.
Github’s value is likely between $0.75B and $2B.
Bad PR caused by this story will exceed 10 years TCO of that extra server.