Accessing binary blob data in MySQL backend

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mow Wrote:
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> You may try "fuse" (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/),
> implement a tiny file 
> system easily which uses mysql as data source and
> acts as a real file 
> system.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I reckon that context switches between
kernel and a userland filesystem would be detrimental to the
performance.Performance is the key ;-)

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