Puppet users - Jan 2008 - filebucket

Hello!

When I activate the filebucket ressource, and set the parameter server,
my server get a list of directories whose names are a character of the
md5sum, here are my conf and output:

site.pp on my server:

filebucket{main:server=>myserver}

file{"/tmp/testpuppet":
        owner=>root,group=>root,mode=>777,
        backup=>main
}

file{"/tmp/toto":
        owner=>root,group=>root,mode=>644,
        source=>"puppet://myserver/files/testfile",
        backup=>main
}

puppet.conf on my server:

[main]
logdir=/var/log/puppet
vardir=/var/lib/puppet
ssldir=/var/lib/puppet/ssl
rundir=/var/run/puppet
bucketdir=/tmp

[puppetmasterd]
templatedir=/var/lib/puppet/templates



###Output on the client#####
info: Retrieving plugins
info: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]/source: No specified sources exist
notice: Ignoring cache
info: No classes to store
info: Caching catalog at /var/lib/puppet/state/localconfig.yaml
notice: Starting catalog run
6d5
< 1111111
info: //File[/tmp/toto]: Filebucketed to main with sum
90e7e90496e124e85bf4ca1da8ecce8b
notice: //File[/tmp/toto]/source: replacing from source
puppet://myserver/files/testfile with contents
{md5}4d95581c715cc5e3a0eed105ff1d8b7e
info: Sent transaction report in 0.04 seconds
notice: Finished catalog run in 0.51 seconds

And the on the server, in the /tmp dir, I have:

9/0/e/7/e/9/0/4/90e7e90496e124e85bf4ca1da8ecce8b/

The eight first characters are directories, and in the last string
(90e7e90496e124e85bf4ca1da8ecce8b), I have 2 folders:
-contents
-paths

I don''t understand I have so much dir...

Could someone explain it to me?

Thanks in advance

Greg

Gregoire Galland wrote:
> 9/0/e/7/e/9/0/4/90e7e90496e124e85bf4ca1da8ecce8b/
> 
> The eight first characters are directories, and in the last string
> (90e7e90496e124e85bf4ca1da8ecce8b), I have 2 folders:
> -contents
> -paths
> 
> I don''t understand I have so much dir...
Storing files this way avoids putting too much files in the same
directory and thus improves the time taken by a stat() on a specific
file on common filesystems.

On Jan 31, 2008, at 2:22 AM, Gregoire Galland wrote:
> The eight first characters are directories, and in the last string
> (90e7e90496e124e85bf4ca1da8ecce8b), I have 2 folders:
> -contents
> -paths
>
> I don''t understand I have so much dir...
>
> Could someone explain it to me?

I had to create that many directories because otherwise you''d end up  
with a single directory with thousands of files in it, which doesn''t  
scale.  Older versions of Puppet did that, though.

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