<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Matej Krejci <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matejkrejci@gmail.com" target="_blank">matejkrejci@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">What I'm nervous about is that putting things into directories using "by (file) type" approach (cell/name, cellhd/name, cats/name, ...) rather then "by object" approach (vector/name/*) is something we consider obsolete and it is not used for vector. Also we are talking about changing raster to follow the "by object" approach in the future.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">But putting the metadata separately makes perfect sense because of possible external location and because it is not so invasive to the current system. I guess these are the same reasons why raster directory layout is what it is. Moreover, even for vector, for attributes in particular, we are not strictly keeping "by object" approach (and we cannot since we want to be able to connect to one external storage).<br>
<br>So, I really don't know which approach is better. Maybe, it is really the combination of both.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Vaclav<br></div></div>