imagedirectory performance

[Robby Stephenson]

On Friday 27 February 2009, Sandor Bodo-Merle wrote:
> Tellico creates a temp folder for holding cover images. In my case there
> are cca 4000 images in a flat folder (and growing :) )
> My question is - would it be benefical to use directory hashing (like
> most mail servers, git and others do)? As the image names are md5 sums, a
> hierarch based on the
> first 2 letter would be easy to do. Any opinions?

That's probably a good idea to keep in mind. I didn't really plan ahead 
about collections with thousands of images when I started! :)

The tricky part is probably the linking form the HTML templates.

Robby