I'd prefer to keep it as it is..., but well this makes a coding (i.e. linking to this images from external application) a little bit tricker. Coding will be probably performed by non-MW programmer so want to make his task a little bit easier.
But yes performance issues are v.imp so probably it will be necessary to keep the directory structure.
Regards, Aretai
On 3/7/07, Fernando Correia fernandoacorreia@gmail.com wrote:
2007/3/7, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com:
The wiki can handle it without problems, splitting on folders is done because some filesystems have problems (are slower) when a folder has lots of files.
Aretai, mind this warning. It can be *extremely slow* if you have a large number of files (several thousands, or close to a million).
I suggest you estimate how many images your wiki may accumulate for some time, say a few years, and try to create that many files on your filesystem using an automated script. Then test access time to these files.
Anyway, are you sure you need them in just one directory?
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