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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Re: [BUG] org-attach-id-ts-folder-format fails on customized IDs [9.6 (9.6-??-2e9999783)]
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:19:17 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8qz9zui.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <td0i7r$bge$1@ciao.gmane.io>

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

>>> Please, do not use path components starting with dash, it is terrible
>>> for CLI tools. By the way, you promised underscores, not dashes.
>> 
>> Why?
>
> It is inconvenient in interactive sessions (in scripts appropriate 
> measures must be taken anyway), the following does not list content of 
> the "--" directory:
>
>      ls -l --

Thanks for the clarification.

>> I slightly dislike the "___xx" compared to "______" because it will
>> create a proliferation of top-level folders as opposed to cramping the
>> non-standard IDs into a single "______" folder.
>
> I believed that proliferation of folders is for purpose. Intermediate 
> directories allows to avoid excessive number of files in single 
> directory. ext4 with directory tree index usually is not the case, but 
> other filesystems may have rather poor performance when too much files 
> are stuffed into single folder. Some applications become really slow for 
> huge directories.

I was referring to TS style timestamp resolver here. It is designed to
group directories by creation time, not to distribute them homogeneously.

> On the other hand there are not so many distinct file names that may 
> fall into "__" directory, so perhaps it is OK.

Yes. Such short IDs are not supposed to be common and even if they are,
the maximum possible number of such IDs is relatively small. 


-- 
Ihor Radchenko,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at https://orgmode.org/.
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-11  4:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-20 19:12 [BUG] org-attach-id-ts-folder-format fails on customized IDs [9.6 (9.6-??-2e9999783)] Janek F
2022-07-23  5:22 ` [PATCH] " Ihor Radchenko
2022-08-02 22:26   ` Janek F
2022-08-03 16:03   ` Max Nikulin
2022-08-03 22:25     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-08-10 11:43       ` [PATCH v2] " Ihor Radchenko
2022-08-10 12:17         ` Max Nikulin
2022-08-10 13:23           ` [PATCH v3] " Ihor Radchenko
2022-08-10 15:18             ` Max Nikulin
2022-08-11  4:19               ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2022-08-11 14:43                 ` Max Nikulin
2022-08-13  5:29                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-08-13 16:25                     ` Max Nikulin
2022-08-14  4:00                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-10-02  9:14                         ` [PATCH v4] " Ihor Radchenko
2022-10-04 15:27                           ` Max Nikulin
2022-10-05  5:44                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-06  7:43                               ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-07 17:05                               ` [PATCH] org-attach.el: ID to path functions may return nil Max Nikulin
2022-11-08  5:08                                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-09 16:53                                   ` [PATCH v2] " Max Nikulin
2022-11-10  7:19                                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-13 16:26                                       ` Max Nikulin
2022-11-14  3:29                                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-14 16:59                                           ` Max Nikulin
2022-11-15  2:41                                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-15 16:41                                               ` Max Nikulin
2022-11-16  1:54                                                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-08-12 15:35 ` [BUG] org-attach-id-ts-folder-format fails on customized IDs [9.6 (9.6-??-2e9999783)] Max Nikulin
2022-08-12 16:08   ` Janek F
2022-08-13  5:17     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-08-13 15:59     ` Max Nikulin

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