Another option would of course be to store a mapping between dir/filenames and Keyspace/columns familes together with other info related to keyspaces and column families. Just add API/command line tools to look up the filenames and maybe store the values in the files as well for recovery purposes.
Terje On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Janne Jalkanen <janne.jalka...@ecyrd.com>wrote: > > I've been doing it for years with no technical problems. However, using "%" > as the escape char tends to, in some cases, confuse a certain operating > system whose name may or may not begin with "W", so using something else > makes sense. > > However, it does require an extra cognitive step for the maintainer, since > the mapping between filenames and logical names is no longer immediately > obvious. Especially with multiple files this can be a pain (e.g. Chinese > logical names which map to pretty incomprehensible sequences that are > laborious to look up). > > So my experience suggests to avoid it for ops reasons, and just go with > simplicity. > > /Janne > > On Aug 31, 2010, at 08:39 , Terje Marthinussen wrote: > > Beyond aesthetics, specific reasons? > > Terje > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Benjamin Black <b...@b3k.us> wrote: > >> URL encoding. >> >> >
