Question on work-flow for big binary files

[J.S. van Bethlehem]

Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
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> The situation is similar with databases. Lots of people ask if it is good to 
> put such large files in database, say as a part of website, images or 
> audio/video etc., to gain support from database transactions and ACID 
> guarantees. Many a times, acceptable solution is to put the file name in the 
> database and put the file in the file system.(I think similar solution is 
> suggested before, in terms of hg).
Yep, indeed: the bigfiles extention. I'm not sure what the current
status is of that extention

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Jakob