After 2.4.0, the structure of the directory holding the index files
was changed to have three levels instead of being flat. This greatly
reduces the number of files in a given directory, which was a problem
for some systems.
The new layout is:
[indexdir]/hostname/filesystem/YYYYMMDD_L.gz
where hostname and filesystem are "sanitized" versions of the
names from disklist, i.e. '/' characters are converted to
'_' and so on. This new naming convention matches the one
used for the text formatted database.
A script is available to convert the flat directory structure to the
new layout:
msg00428.html
Last updated: $Date: 2002-06-10 15:03:28 $