Am 2006-05-15 17:25:05, schrieb Rory Browne: > Bullshit. there are multiple tools for copying files from host to host, > including ftp, scp, sftp, rsync, nfs, etc. Planning ahead, is a better way > to avoid breaking links than using MySQL to store your images. Right, currently I am using a php5 script which generate temporary tables and references where to find the binaries and the I dump the temporary table. After this I put the dump plus the images into a tar-ball and transfer it. The receiver has an equivalent script which can import the table dump and install the "binaries correctly. > I notice you've misspelt the most important word there. He says the lookup > _MAY_ become slow. This behavour is dependent on the filesystem you are > using. You will encounter this problem with ext3 if you have too many files > in the same dir. You're less likely to encounter it with reiser. This comes > down to the competance of the administrator. An incompetantly setup mysql > table ( without indexes ) would have the same problem. Right, I have had to create a filesystem with directory structure where I use the md5sum of the binary and split the 32 Bytes it up into several subdirectories (e.g. 4 Byte wise) Now this has speed up my binary-server over the factor 3-5 Oh yes, one thing: For some years as I begun to use PostgreSQL (I think it was 6.5) I have stored *.doc, *.xls and such stuff into the PostgreSQL which gaved me a performance as the hell... Since I do not realy like the hell and found many usefull *NIX-Tools I have extracted the Data into text/plain of for the *.xls stuff into XLM-Tables which can very good stored into the Database and searching is working perfectly... The original are always stored on my binary-server. Having infos about JPEG's? I extract teh EXIF data and store it in the Database... Greetings Michelle Konzack -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php