I wonder if it would be better to sort by type. /uploads/table_name/field_name/ Working with those images/files should be done from a database don't you think? When I deal with large amounts of files I use the console. BR, Jason Brower
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 23:45 -0700, szimszon wrote: > I wasn't able to continue the thread in > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_frm/thread/a81248fec1dcef81/ > > So... > > I imagine that I would have lots of files say some 10 000 or more. :) > I think with ext3/ext2... filesystems so many files in one directory > is a mess. > > Is there absoute out of question to have upload/download to handle > this issue in trunk? > > I think of some kind of directory structure like one directory (say > upload/0) has X number of files then the new one (upload/1) is created > and the new files are stored in it... > ...and download could handle it out of the box. > > Or the generated filenames first or first two character is the > directory name under upload/ and the file is stored under that > directory... it could be a Field switch which defaults to the old > behavior...
