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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/17/07 11:49
theCancerus wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but i am
> very sure you may have faced this problem, i have already found some
> post related to this but not the answer i am looking for.
>
> My problem is that i have to upload images and store them. I am using
> filesystem for that.
>
> setup is something like this, their will be items/groups/user each can
> have upto 6 images which needs to be scaled to 4 different sizes ie
> every item can have upto 24 images of varying sizes.
>
> now the standard way of storing these files would be to store them in
> subdirectories based on some hash.
>
> my partial solution is to split the four types of files into four
> fixed base folders for each dimension,
>
> since filename is in format "YmdHis" i decided to use directory
> structure as Y/m/d/<filename>.
> but i realize that even this could be inefficient.
>
> so now i am thinking about going one more level by creating Y/m/d/H/i/
> <filename> directory structure.
>
> now my question is how to go about creating subdirectories below base
> folders, will my scheme hold or should i use md5 hash as suggested by
> others, over the filename and then take 2-3 characters and create one
> or two level of directory structure and then store the files?
>
> Regards,
> Amit
>
I use databases for this.
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