DMS, _attachment or path_field?

[Anselmo Silva]

When Building a document management system, will you consider the  
binary _attachment (as couchdb current feature) or a path_field to a  
server/file_system (protected) enviroment?

its an ongoing question about saving binary into a DB ( even with  
couchDB ). From this we can raise some high-level architecture question:

- Will the binary _attachments affect the rebuild index views ( even  
with append ) ?
- How about replication?( I think it would be hard and intense when  
dealing with higher db size values. )

Thanks