MySQL Binary Storage using BLOB VS OS File System: large files, large quantities, large problems?

I work on a large software system that has done both mechanisms for storing attachments and other content. The first iteration of the system stored all data in BLOBs in the DB. I cursed it at the time.

As a programmer, I could write side scripts to immediately operate on the data and change it whenever I wanted to.

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