Michael, If the last concern regarding a large number of files is that the directory object's XML will become very large, you can address this by always indicating the hierarchy from the child pointing to the parent. A directory may have thousands of files, but it is less likely that a file will be linked to thousands of directories.
- Ben On 12/21/10, Levy, Michael <ml...@ushmm.org> wrote: > What about crawling through the file content of the drive; each file > directory becomes a Fedora object which is a child of its parent directory, > and each individual file in the directory becomes a child of that object. > > It may occasionally occur that a folder contains a very large number of > files; however, in most cases, each folder contains a reasonable number of > files. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Forrester recently released a report on the Return on Investment (ROI) of > Google Apps. They found a 300% ROI, 38%-56% cost savings, and break-even > within 7 months. Over 3 million businesses have gone Google with Google > Apps: > an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your > browser. Read the Forrester report: http://p.sf.net/sfu/googleapps-sfnew > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-commons-users mailing list > Fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester recently released a report on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Google Apps. They found a 300% ROI, 38%-56% cost savings, and break-even within 7 months. Over 3 million businesses have gone Google with Google Apps: an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your browser. Read the Forrester report: http://p.sf.net/sfu/googleapps-sfnew _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-users mailing list Fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users
