Re: [Slashcode-development] many images in the db makes blob table >2Gig

[Shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Jun 10, 2004, at 1:31 AM, James Marca wrote:

> Hi all,
> just a note about images in the db, something I came across tonight
> but hadn't thought about.  If you have a lot of images, then the image
> table will get really big.  So I just ran into my filesystem/MySQL 
> limit, I
> think, of about 2 Gig.  Not that the standard slash install will have
> this problem, but it might.  So perhaps a note in the docs is in order
> w/r/t the blob table, that if you have a lot of blobs, make sure the
> filesystem/MySQL setup can handle it.
>
> If anyone knows an easy fix, aside from upgrading my machine to a new
> version of linux (which I am going to do anyway) I'd like to hear it.
> I am pretty clueless when it comes to files this big, and when it
> comes to setting up MySQL to handle big tables.
>
> Thanks,
> James

Did you ever come up with a solution for your problem?