From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 27 14:37:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D06CE37C32C for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:37:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA18274; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:36:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:36:55 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Chris Shenton Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , "Nicole Harrington." , Luigi Rizzo , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many files can I put in one diretory? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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