>> That was ages ago. Modern filesystems don't have this problem >> In contrary - Hundred thousand images in one directory are not problem for Satchmo,
Cool~ Thank you Christian and Hynek for tips. Hynek, thanks for the patch also, and probably will implement it on the new site. DL On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:51 AM, hynekcer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<satchmo-users%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. > > -- 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.
