[opencms-dev] Some general question about storing data

[tol]

Hi!

I've a question in understanding datastoring in opencms. The way to 
create an publish html-sites is so far clear. :)

But wht is about storing non-web-data? For example PDFs and music-files?

As I know there are two ways handling big-data files: saving the files 
in the filesystem of the OS or write it as BLOBs into a database.

I assume writing to filesystem is the better way? Transfered to the 
opencms it is to reason that storing within the opencms (->database) is 
not a good idea. Right?

But on the other hand opencms offers a lot of features like locking, 
acl, publishing, etc. All that I 've to reimplement by my self if I want 
storing it outside opencms. Right too?

What is a good way to handle big files?

best regards
Tol

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