On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > there must > be some workable encoding scheme so that ASCII characters [a-zA-Z] are left in > tact for sysadmin readablity. >
Antony, I appreciate all the effort you've put in, and I understand the arguments for having hashed based db-names. However, on more than one occasion I've been happily surprised by how easy it is to work with CouchDB's data files in the terminal. I agree with Noah, sysadmin readability is an actual requirement, not just a nicety. Perhaps your filename scheme could be appended to a slug (based on the safe-chars) so that sysadmins could still use meaningful file globs to eg batch rsync .couch files and view directories. Readability / globbableness is also nice when you're trying to figure out which views use the most space on the filesystem, a common task. Chris -- Chris Anderson http://jchris.mfdz.com
