Re: Attachement_fu physical storage structure

Thank you - this makes sense and re-assures some speculations.

Peter De Berdt wrote:
> 
> On 23 Jul 2008, at 13:02, MW Administrator wrote:
> 
>> Can someone explain how/why attachment_fu stores its files the way it 
>> does?  I noticed that it creates a directory for each upload and am 
>> curious how it determines this and/or the methodology.
> 
> It creates a directory for each model you define with "has_attachment" 
> within the public folder (although you can change the storage path if 
> you want to). Then it creates partitioned folders by default based on 
> the id of your model record (this can disabled if you want to). For 
> record with id=1 in your Document model, it will create 
> documents/0000/0001/file.ext. The reason why it partitions the folders 
> has to do with filesystem limits iirc. Some storage systems have a limit 
> to the number of folders within a directory.
> 
> The best thing to do, is just browse through the source code (or rdoc) 
> of the plugin yourself, it's well documented and tells you all you need 
> to know.
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> 
> Peter De Berdt
> 
> 
> 
> > 

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