Accessing binary blob data in MySQL backend

Igor Sysoev igor at sysoev.ru
Tue May 31 19:08:03 MSD 2011


On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:05:09AM -0400, csg wrote:
> mow Wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------------
> > 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 ;-)

If perfomance is the key, you should use a file system.
Or you believe that reading from MySQL is magic zero transportation ? :)


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Igor Sysoev



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