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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



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