Of course you have to pay for fuse but till you use mysql as your image
storage, I assume payload for "only - reading" from fuse file system
becomes a drop in the ocean for you. Also, this was nothing but just a
quick advice of course learning more about the nginx plugin you use will
be a perfect solution as far as you can modify it to fit your needs.

On 5/31/2011 6:05 PM, csg wrote:
> mow Wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------------
>> You may try "fuse" (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/),
>> implement a tiny file
>> system easily which uses mysql as data source and
>> acts as a real file
>> system.
> Correct me if I am wrong, but I reckon that context switches between
> kernel and a userland filesystem would be detrimental to the
> performance.Performance is the key ;-)
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,202577,202655#msg-202655
>
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