A common technique for storing a lot of files/blobs in a filesystem is to use a hash function to determine the filepath; eg hash(identifier) -> "o238455789" -> o23/8455/789 (there is often a hash-c...

I have developed a Java EE web application. This application allows a user to upload a file with the help of a browser. Once the user has uploaded his file, this application first stores the upload...

I need to store about 600,000 images on a web server that uses NTFS. Am I better off storing images in 20,000-image chunks in subfolders? (Windows Server 2008) I'm concerned about incurring operat...

I'm working on a web application right now using Rails and wanted to see if anyone knew of a good way to keep track of file storage limits? We want to give users a specific amount of room that they...