Blog Entry: Django MD5Storage - easy way to store a lot of files on filesystem
Some time ago we have released MD5Storage - django app, field and 'storage' class for storing many files on file system.
Advantages of this approach:
- Can be used to store hundreds thousands of files without big performance problems
- Easy to add
- Multiple files are stored in same place: save disk space
- Multiple uploads of same file does not lead to name clash
Installation and basic usage explained here: hdg.djangoapps.MD5Storage
Example:
from hdg.djangoapps.MD5Storage.storage import MD5Storage
class SomeModel(models.Model):
some_picture = models.ImageField(storage=MD5Storage(),
upload_to='pictures')
The resulting file placement will be:
- htdocs
- pictures
- 0a
- 0b
- 0c
- ...
- pictures