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Dave gives his feedback on a long-debated developement topic : storing files in database or on the filesystem. "I had been serving images via the database. Immediately when I switched to the filesystem I saw a huge benefit. Not just a drop in database connections, but overall “zippiness” in the site. We’ll see how well this performs in the real world, but I am quite sure that I learned my lesson." All this makes sense : files are not data, they are just files. A filesystem is designed for hosting files. A database is designed for hosting data. Don't mess things.

This is a project for the MySQL Filesystem storage engine. It translates normal files on your server into relational tables inside of MySQL.

HAL - Hardware Abstraction Layer

Cluster File Systems, Inc. is the leading developer of next generation technology for scalable high-performance file systems

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MogileFS is our open source distributed filesystem

Lustre is a scalable, secure, robust, highly-available cluster file system