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   From: brazil@brazils-animeland.de   
      
   bigbinc wrote:   
      
   > This is cool stuff,   
      
   "Really idiotic" is the expression I'd use.   
      
   > Is there anyway to implement a sort of Network   
   > File System using Oracle using blobs.  The question is, will this kill   
   > the oracle server?   
      
   If used even halfway intensively, yes.   
      
   > Will the performance being in better using File I/O for example using   
   > servlets?   
      
   Yes. A LOT better. Easily 100 times better. It's exactly the thing that   
   modern file systems try so hard to prevent and CS teaches you to avoid like   
   the plague: fragment big files into small chunks and scatter them all over   
   the place so that the HD's latency completely dominates its transfer speed.   
      
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