[dev] ansel vfspath question

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Duck <duck at obala.net>:

> Is there a special resion to store images in the way
> <ansel.vfs.dir> . substr(<imageid>, -2) / <view>/<imageid>.type?

Many. See the list archives.

> I was thinking about a more clean naming, special in large installations.
> <ansel.vfs.dir> /<username>/<galleryid>/<imageid>/<view>.type
>
> In this way the admin have a clean representation of images
> ownersinp/gallery. And for example deleting an image, gallery, or users
> gallery would be easer. And of course in very large installation in system
> friendly to not have thousand of files in the same directory.

username and galleryid don't always have that parent-child relationship, and
this would make it much harder to deal with moving images between galleries.

-chuck

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