Storing a large number of images

Question

I\'m thinking about developing my own PHP based gallery for storing lots of pictures, maybe in the tens of thousands.

At the database I\'ll point to the url of the i

Answer 1

Look at XFS Filesystem. It supports an unlimited number of files, and Linux supports it. http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/papers/xfs_usenix/index.html