File/Folder Creation and File Management Schema
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Quote from Andrew - ref:http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/chat/large_site_scalabili...
"Heh, we're still very much supporting UNIX =) all this statement means is that, in the past, we had dumped every single file uploaded to a site into the root of the files/ directory. Now, we're breaking that up into a series of subdirectories, for a number of reasons.
1. File path is somewhat obfuscated (although this isn't really done for security reasons.)
2. Files are no longer renamed when they are uploaded. That means no more ugly filenames with a bunch of characters/numbers at the beginning of them. Instead, the characters/numbers make up the path to the file.
3. We didn't like that our large sites really filled up directories with thousands and thousands of files. Now we'll still have lots of directories (and it may be difficult to find files unless you use the file manager to locate them) but they should not result in hundreds of thousands of files in only one directory."
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Are there a few proposed schemas which can be shared?
Rick
"Heh, we're still very much supporting UNIX =) all this statement means is that, in the past, we had dumped every single file uploaded to a site into the root of the files/ directory. Now, we're breaking that up into a series of subdirectories, for a number of reasons.
1. File path is somewhat obfuscated (although this isn't really done for security reasons.)
2. Files are no longer renamed when they are uploaded. That means no more ugly filenames with a bunch of characters/numbers at the beginning of them. Instead, the characters/numbers make up the path to the file.
3. We didn't like that our large sites really filled up directories with thousands and thousands of files. Now we'll still have lots of directories (and it may be difficult to find files unless you use the file manager to locate them) but they should not result in hundreds of thousands of files in only one directory."
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Are there a few proposed schemas which can be shared?
Rick
