Is this a problem anymore with Ext3 using dir_index? Or is this a different kind of performance issue?
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Daniel Friesen <[email protected]>wrote: > On 11-04-18 09:23 AM, Juan Rodríguez wrote: > > Hi folk, > > I studing wikimedia system and there is something I want to know about > > images: > > Is it possible to upload (and so on store) the images in different > folders? > > I realised that when you do a normal upload, files are stored in folders > > with *arbitrary?* name like: "A", "01", etc. Does anybody know what > > programming mechanism is used to allow this? Could it be used to upload > > files to different folders? > > Thanks. > That's the $wgHashedUploadDirectory setting (on by default) which is > used to avoid having too many files in one folder because some > filesystems don't perform well with large numbers of files in one folder. > > The algorithm for that is based on a md5 of the name, the first hex > character is used for the first directory, then the first two characters > are used for the subdirectory. > Foo.png -> md5 = f865cbca12286c1c5b7616b4a70fbf68 -> f + f8 = /f/f8/Foo.png > > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
