RE: When to store files in DB vs. File system

2001-12-03 Thread Jim.W.Berg
day, December 03, 2001 6:48 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: When to store files in DB vs. File system I've seen a lot of implementations do this sort of thing, especially when archive emails and the like. I've also heard that people find many OS's start to slow down with

RE: When to store files in DB vs. File system

2001-12-03 Thread Gavin Terrill
://www.karora.com/DocConn.htm Gavin Terrill CTO, Karora Technologies Inc. http://www.karora.com -Original Message- From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 6:48 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: When to store files in DB vs. File system I&#x

Re: When to store files in DB vs. File system

2001-12-03 Thread Ted Husted
I've seen a lot of implementations do this sort of thing, especially when archive emails and the like. I've also heard that people find many OS's start to slow down with even 1000 files in a directory, so I believe many such systems use that as an increment /1/000 - /1/999. A general piece of go

RE: When to store files in DB vs. File system

2001-12-03 Thread Darryl Nortje
Hi. Everyone is going to tell you that you must store it in the database. The reason are that in different OS's, there is a limit to how many files you can store in each directory. (windows i think is 1). I was faced with this same problem under a time constraint, so never took the time to f