Re: [PATCH v3] Re: [BUG] org-attach-id-ts-folder-format fails on customized IDs [9.6 (9.6-??-2e9999783)]

[Ihor Radchenko]

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. 


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