From: Thees Peereboom 

Geo,

Sure, fileshares (with Windows, not sure about SUN) are easy to maintain,
if you move the contents of a directory to another place you should move
the fileshare as well. One more thing to do. Unfortunately not everything
is always as documented as it should be and especially after some time,
these things tend to be forgotten.

Moreover, broken links go often unnoticed, when unmonitored operations and
of course noone reads the logs...

It all depends on the question whether you want to invest in solving
problems or in preventing problems.

- Thees Peereboom


On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:57:05 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
>news:odmm0v8nl8rsvotp312ia2o02duamgaft9{at}4ax.com...
>
>> Unfortunately it always ends up that some day the pointers appear
>> broken, mostly because of some completely legitimate reason.
>
>Ok, so that's the big concern then that someone is going to move the files
>and break the system. At least I understand what it is that you have to
>watch out for.
>
>Perhaps I don't see it as much of a problem because all the db I've done
>with images (using pointers) are for websites where if you change the path
>of anything it all breaks..
>
>Seems to me though that if you are using file shares to get to the files
>then directory services would make it pretty easy to move files without
>changing the path to them.
>
>Geo. (guess it makes it easy to change the path without moving the files as
>well)
>

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