On the potential advantages of the MySQL filesystem hack :
"Why not to share /mnt/mysql with SAMBA and let marketdroids modify directly SQL database? They will be happy if they can directly write text into database (which meanwhile can server web in realtime) or use cut & paste do drop image into car sale ad. This much easier way making content management then having hundreds lines of code in Perl or PHP just to put image in database."
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