Posted by Rik Wasmus on 09/01/07 19:26

On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:39:06 +0200, The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c> wrote:

> Rik Wasmus wrote:
>> On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:13:33 +0200, Rik Wasmus
>> <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:42:59 +0200, The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> If you really want a chunked upload check out the user comments at
>>>>> <http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Are you dyslexic, I want to DOWNLOAD. Upload I have done already.
>>>
>>>
>>> bah, 't was late last night... I meant to say download, allthough it
>>> depends wether you think usercentric or usercentric which is which :P
>> Hmmmz, haven't made a full recovery yet I see, "usercentric or
>> servercentric"...
>>
> its Saturday, Get a bottle of decent spirits and relax. ;-)
>
> Anyway I have enough onfo op spec out that part of e jobn. Muy necxt
> problem is wheher

Hehe, taking you own advice? :P

> its more efficient to have 5000 files all called 00001, 00002...05000 in
> one directory, or whether to split them up over several..and whether to
> keep their names and extensions intact, or just be lazy, knowing the
> data base knows what they were called.

Hmm, depends on the file system, not really an expert there. Jerry would
tell you to just serve them up straight from the database, and forget
about the filesystem, I'm not so sure :). You can do a little testing
offcourse, see what works best.
--
Rik Wasmus

My new ISP's newsserver sucks. Anyone recommend a good one? Paying for
quality is certainly an option.

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