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Generate thumbnail

dfmcvn

dfmcvn

Chevereto Member
I'm trying Chevereto Free and I'm impressed with the speed. But I saw this script generate a lots of thumbnail in images/ folder.

Is the Core version have the ability to generate thumbnail by PHP API or something like this?
I would be happy to upgrade if that feature exists, that would save much of disk space.

Thank you.
 
Hi @dfmcvn, thank you for using the software.

Thumbs are always generated, it is a remaining of the old way to do web. When the current version was created it wasn't trivial to get an image server for serving resized versions of a given image, so the system generates a static version.

The paid version works exactly the same in this regard, but it provides support for external storage.

To be honest, I don't think that the storage used by thumbs will be the issue because to get that issue you need a huge number of images, which will require several orders of magnitude more of storage space than the required by thumbs.
 
Hello,

yes, I see the size of these thumbnail is just about ~10KB, that is not a big problem.
But currently I'm using Chevereto as a "backup solution" of my photos. I just uploaded ~10k images (9223) and I see ~27k files include these thumbnails.

[CODE lang="bash" title="count number of files in chev's directory" highlight="3"]
[root@xxx home]# cd /home/xxx.xxx/public_html/images/2020/
[root@xxx 2020]# find . -type f | wc -l
27179
[root@xxx 2020]#[/CODE]

Do you think this will degrade disk's performance (local)? I know this is not a problem if I use `external storage` like S3.

Thank you.
 
In all these years I can't remember anyone having a real issue with these thumb files. In any case, the answer depends on the filesystem being used.

For ext4 you can allocate 4 billion files.

Like I said, I doubt it will be an issue 😉
 
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