Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:36:55 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, "Nicole Harrington." <nicole@unixgirl.com>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many files can I put in one diretory? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000627163504.83870A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <lf8zvs5vqk.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com>
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On 26 Jun 2000, Chris Shenton wrote: :I was considering this for a project I developed: web up/download of :lots of large files. I was using MySQL and some of the folks on that :list recommended not storing large files in the DB: even though the :disk consumption is the same, if it's in a DB you can't spread it :across partitions as space requirements grow. That's a failing of your DBMS, and not of a database in general. I add space to existing databases under Sybase fairly often. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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