Use MySQL as filesystem

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With MySQLfs you can store a filesystem inside a MySQL relational database. MySQLfs breaks up the byte content of files that you store in its filesystem into tuples in the database, which allows you to store large files in the filesystem without requiring the database to support extremely large BLOB fields. With MySQLfs you can throw a filesystem into a MySQL database and take advantage of whatever database backup, clustering, and replication setup you have to protect your MySQLfs filesystem.

Read more :- *www.linux.com/feature/127055

Are you using it Mehul?

its for corporate guys.. not useful for regular home/business computing. I wonder why people would choose this when rather than directly using the regular filesystem. also there will be a over head as the data will go thro MySQL installation..

Pathiks, just saw it today, I guess I should try this on one test machine, once I get time.

Whats the advantage ?

^^ None i guess..