Re: scalable web gallery

At 10:41 AM -0400 7/10/08, Daniel Brown wrote:

    Still, I'd create 16 subdirectories under the images directory:

0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f. Then name the file as an MD5 hash of the image uploaded, and place it in the directory matching the first character of the new file name.

Why not use a hash table based upon the name of the file and distribute files that way? You don't even need a directory until you actually need one -- then create one 'on-the-fly' and drop the file into it. As such, it's easy to find the file again by simply hashing it's name -- you don't even need to store a path for the file, only the name of the file. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com