> why overload your administration task (think of backups!) by storing objects that won't change? Consider also the extra overhead in the cache and across the network in possibly retrieving large blobs that your users normally would need to have at the client only on request, e.g. via a Show/Select image button.

For the sake of consistency, for example. Keeping files in FS and
references in DB in synch is a nightmare.
Overhead level depends only on radius of curvature of application
coder's hands.

SY, SD.