Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.databases.mysql Subject: Re: Can MySql database store images? Followup-To: comp.databases.mysql Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:48:08 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: <840g88-ece.ln1@squidward.dionic.net> References: <4db54728$0$81481$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="6oIlEBqCjOm0MjsSUEk5CA"; logging-data="20347"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ew/Vtq7/H+7p6btSBsrvRgVhTqLjCOXU=" User-Agent: KNode/4.4.6 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Sq9GFSywV25oc48A8HbgLPc4hKI= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.databases.mysql:655 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 4/25/2011 6:04 AM, Luuk wrote: >> On 24-04-2011 23:34, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> Additionally, RDBMS's can partition data for faster access, i.e. across >>> multiple disks or even multiple systems. Filesystems cannot do that >>> transparently. >> >> File systems can do that, they invented something like directory's for >> that. >> >> A different toy needs different tools... >> > > Name a file system which transparently partitions a directory across > multiple systems. > ZFS Any file system on top of LVM or EVMS. -- Tim Watts