On 07/03/07, aretai aretai &lt;aretaiuc(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: know In the default configuration, when $wgHashedUploadDirectory is switched on, the filename is hashed (MD5), and the first part of the hash is exploded, e.g. "83aff429..." becomes /8/83/<full filename>. This is appended to the upload directory and is used to store the file proper. The code which handles this can be found in includes/Image.php and includes/ImageFunctions.php, e.g. wfGetHashPath() etc. Rob Church _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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.

2007/3/7, Platonides &lt;Platonides(a)gmail.com&gt;om>: 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? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l