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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks Zhang.<br>
I was just wondering as I'm building a photo site as well and expect
the number of images to grow over time to be large. I also have
directories for s/ m/ p/ l/ f/ - and was thinking I may split into
subdirectories but just wasn't sure it made any difference. I'd be
interested to know if you ever find info about that. I do know that
some command line tools are hard to use with large numbers of files but
I didn't really expect to have to go in manually to browse them. Also
my files are replicated up onto Amazon S3.<br>
Chris :)<br>
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<pre wrap="">I'm curious about your breaking up the filename into a path like that.
If using ext3 filesystem is there any advantage speed wise to doing
that? I thought it could handle large file counts without a problem
using indexing but I may be wrong and I am quite interested as I expect
to have thousands of image files as well and if it's going to be slow on
ext3 then I would also want to split up directories like this.
Chris :)
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First of all, I simplified the question a little, all url's are actually
ended with "-(L|M|S|Q|T)" denoting different sizes (large, medium,
small, square, thumbnail), so that's multiplication by five :-)
Secondly, yes, it's ext3 (on my dev pc), but I split files this way is
more for ease of management and some flexibility instead of from purly
performance stand point.
I don't have hard data and facts right now, but in my understanding,
splitting up does help in terms of performance. I will share more info
when I have some more.
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