Attachment Folder Systems

[dvsDave]

One thing I've always been curious about, coming from vBulletin is what the methodology was for the vBulletin file attachment system. Why are the paths four directories deep?
(i.e. /attachments/4/3/6/9/)

Also, if there was a reason these were 4 levels deep, why does it appear that xenforo's are only 1 level deep?

 

[DRE]

Good question breh.

 

[Jake Bunce]

vB groups the attachments by user_id. In vB, userid 568 corresponds to /path/5/6/8/.

XF groups the attachments using the data_id into groups of 1000. /path/0/ contains data_ids 0-999. /path/1/ contains data_ids 1000-1999. Etc.

Both storage schemes are different ways to avoid file system limits.

 

[DRE]

vB groups the attachments by user_id. In vB, userid 568 corresponds to /path/5/6/8/.

XF groups the attachments using the data_id into groups of 1000. /path/0/ contains data_ids 0-999. /path/1/ contains data_ids 1000-1999. Etc.

Both storage schemes are different ways to avoid file system limits.

So userid 22 goes into this folder? /path/2/2/

*scratches head

 

[Jake Bunce]

So userid 22 goes into this folder? /path/2/2/

*scratches head

In vB, yes.

 

[DRE]

Weird.