Re: Database versus filesystem for storing images

"Jeremy Haile" <jhaile@fastmail.fm> writes:

> Another thing to consider is that storing them in the file system makes
> it much easier to browse the images using third-party tools, update
> them, archive them (by gzipping or whatever).  This is much more
> difficult if they are stored in the database.

If you touch the files with third-party tools how are you going to prevent
that they aren't missing when the database say they are there?  If you're
referencing them somehow, you have to guarantee that they are there...  Or am
I the only one that is thinking about referential integrity with those files?

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Jorge Godoy      <jgodoy@gmail.com>