In message <20090617091858.432f8...@malediction>, Mike Kazantsev wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:52:28 +1200 > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > >> In message >> <234b19ac-7baf-4356-9fe5-37d00146d...@z9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>, >> thebjorn wrote: >> >> > Not proud of this, but...: >> > >> > [django] www4:~/datakortet/media$ ls bfpbilder|wc -l >> > 174197 >> > >> > all .jpg files between 40 and 250KB with the path stored in a >> > database field... *sigh* >> >> Why not put the images themselves into database fields? >> >> > Oddly enough, I'm a relieved that others have had similar folder >> > sizes ... >> >> One of my past projects had 400000-odd files in a single folder. They >> were movie frames, to allow assembly of movie sequences on demand. > > For both scenarios: > Why not use hex representation of md5/sha1-hashed id as a path, > arranging them like /path/f/9/e/95ea4926a4 ? > > That way, you won't have to deal with many-files-in-path problem ... Why is that a problem? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list