[Clipart] Pre-release Package for 'openclipart'

Bryce Harrington bryce at bryceharrington.com
Wed Jun 9 10:33:14 PDT 2004


On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> fenix at theopencd.net writes:
> 
> > d) I'm not a big expert of categorization and folders on Unix/Linux
> > Servers, but on Windows, I would stay with categories, instead of
> > dates.
> 
> Windows doesn't support symlinks, but on *nix we can store the files
> themselves by date and then create an entire directory heirarchy by
> category out of symlinks -- multiple directory heirarchies if desired.
> 
> Though I still think the database/metadata approach is better.

Heavy use of symlinks within tarballs can have a large number of
issues, even within different *nix variants.  I have been burnt a few
times...  I agree the database/metadata approach is much better.

Bryce




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