[Zope] should files be stored in RDBs?

John Hunter jdhunter@ace.bsd.uchicago.edu
Mon, 20 May 2002 15:52:21 -0500


>>>>> "Charlie" == Charlie Fulton <ccfulton@unity.ncsu.edu> writes:

    Charlie> I'm setting up a database to store data file for a
    Charlie> scientific research group.  I'm thinking of writing the
    Charlie> data into a MySQL table rather than storing them
    Charlie> externally in the filesystem.  The files are generally
    Charlie> small but the number of them will grow quickly.

You may want to look at the LocalFS product to store the file data.
You can put the files on the local file system of the server and store
the metadata in the ZODB or mysql.

John Hunter