On 16 Apr 2002, at 20:22, Sven Neumann wrote: [snip] > We also think that the thumbnails should be split up into > subdirectories in order to avoid problems with too many files in one > directory. A typical user might nowadays easily have several thousands > of thumbnails. Most filesystems don't cope well with such large > amounts of files in one directory. Our proposal is thus to introduce > subdirectories specified by the first letter of the thumbnail name. > That would give 64 subdirectories and the thumbs should evenly > distribute between them. So, for example a 128x128 sized thumb for > ~/photos/me.png would be stored into > ~/.thumbnails/normal/c/c6ee772d9e49320e97ec29a7eb5b1697.png How do you arrive at 64 subdirectories? Does this work for all platforms concerned? -- branko collin collin@xxxxxxxxx
