> Do you really want to put 100,000 files into one database
> file? Isn't that
> a bit risky? Why not use Firebird to store an index to the
> file location on
> some other storage mechanism and focus on it doing the job as
> a relational
> management system, but the physical storage for the files
> could then be
> stored on multiple redundant disk drives?
>

Oh yes, I like the idea of storing your digital assets over multiple drives,
even on different machines.

Almost like an index for an entire network...

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