On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 10:26 -0400, Michael Peters wrote: > Clinton Gormley wrote: > > > I can think of two approaches: > > > > 1) In the DB, store the name of the server to which your file has been > > uploaded > > Don't do that. The moment you put a file into the database you loose all > of the nice tools that your OS gives you for working with files (grep, ls, > find, etc). Plus when you send those files to the client you have to > query and stream it from the database instead of just using the > filesystem. >
I didn't realise that line was so confusing :) I didn't mean: stick the file in the DB. I meant, stick the file into a directory on a particular machine, and then put this into the DB: Sorry - I meant, store this in the DB: - ID: 1234 - type: image/jpeg - path: 12/34/1234.jpg - server: images1.domain.com So that your program would construct a URL pointing to the correct server, or a translation layer would forward the request to the correct server Clint
