[Nottingham] REading filesystem into MySQL query

[Martin Garton]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 09:43 +0100, Moses O'Hara wrote:

> I' ve got a filesystem and simply want to recursively read the file
> names, sizes and locations within that hierarchy and store each result
> into a MySQL database for poking at later. 

What kind of information do you plan on extracting from the database?
Can you give a couple of use-case examples?

-- 
Martin.