--On July 30, 2006 10:42:16 AM -0500 Chris McKeever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Starting to build a new schema, and one of the items is image storage In the past I have always used filesystem storage. Was wondering if I could get a conversation started on the pros/cons of database storage verse filesystem
Bad idea usually in my experience to store it in the DB. This requires the extra steps to transport it over the wire in a mechanism that really wasn't designed for this. I've always had far better performance doing filesystem, or even proxied HTTP requests.
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