[development] Files table includes file_directory_path

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting "larry at garfieldtech.com" <larry at garfieldtech.com>:

> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> Quoting Clemens Tolboom <clemens at build2be.nl>:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 10:18 -0500, larry at garfieldtech.com wrote:
>>>> sites.php was actually added specifically for this sort of issue,
>>>> because the sites/ directory structure was too brittle.
>>>>
>>>> Of course, for the files directories in particular I have long since
>>>> dropped using sites/<sitename>/files in favor of files/<sitekey>, which
>>>> sidesteps the issue entirely.  That doesn't need to change no matter
>>>> what server the site moves to.
>>>
>>> What is your sitekey structure in case of a multi-site environement and
>>> what when doing a staging scenario ie move production to a demo of
>>> regression environment?
>>>
>>> (With D5 multisite I moved from the files/<sitename> to
>>> sites/<sitename>/files to get rid of painfull all at once D5 updates.)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thank you for this rebuttal of Larry's suggestion.  Larry, with  
>> your layout of files/<sitekey> how do you upgrade one site at a time?
>
> How do you upgrade one site at a time on any other multi-site?  Yep,  
> same way.
>
> As I said, Drupal doesn't care where the files directory is, as long  
> as it doesn't change part way through the site's life time.
>
> --Larry Garfield
>

Cool, so it doesn't matter where you put the files directory as long  
as you have the files separated by a site key.  Makes sense to me.

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Earnie