If you have really big number of images, you may need my patch which I sent to Chris some time ago. https://bitbucket.org/hynekcer/satchmo-outgoing/changeset/5478f6ced325
It is especially usefull if you have many images and also many products without any image. In contrary - Hundred thousand images in one directory are not problem for Satchmo, nevertheles I upload only little number of images manually by admin to the default directory and big number of products I import in bulk by a script. Then it is easy to divide thousands images from every mass upload to its own subdirectory. The result of both is the same for Satchmo. Hynek On 25 led, 08:24, Cristian Ciupitu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:55 AM, davidl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I read somewhere that having more than a thousand images in a single > > directory is a bad idea, because all the common filing system has a > > linear search( need to look up every single file until it finds the > > match) and slows down the system. > > That was ages ago. Modern filesystems don't have this problem, they > use data structures better than a list. For example ext3 has the > following feature: > > dir_index > Use hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large > directories. > > Cheers, > Cristian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en.
