Re: [OT] files/dir on windoze
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:17:14 -0500, Kat <gertie at visionsix.com> wrote:
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> On 13 Jul 2004, at 9:50, Patrick Barnes wrote:
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> > Actually, I wouldn't try and use longer filenames if I could...
> > Why not use as many characters as you can -
> > 01234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ - and store them that way....
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> > 5.3 format (assuming all the extensions have the same 3 letters) gives
> > you 60,466,176 combinations - 60 million ought to be plenty...
> > If the name of the file was to have meaning, then you could embed that
> > in the file itself as meta-data - after all, the files would have to
> > be parsed anyway, to see what the header info was.
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> > What was the driving force in using separate files?
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> Data mining, and discovering after 2 days, the directory was full, and there
> was no room to store more data, unless i came up with an artificial way to
> categorise the data, and the data from other programs, and a different more
> complicated method to merge and search the datum. It's like,, i haveto know
> how much data there is, in what form, before i can even store the
> 10megabytes on a 10gig drive??
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> Kat
Well, there's more than one way to skin a cat... oops...
What's wrong with EDS with/without EuSQL? or what about bucketing all
of the files into subfolders? put all the A* files in subfolder A, all
the B* files in subfolder B, etc. It makes it easier to find whether a
file exists that way. Or even some hashing function, and as many
folders as the OS can handle?
If '95 can handle the number, then any win platform after that should do fine.
--
MrTrick
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