[TYPO3-dev] Why File mounts limited?

[Erik Svendsen]

Hello Dmitry,

> Hi!
> 
> Franz Koch wrote:
> 
>> I think Tapio is asking if this limitation is necessary by default. I
>> mean - the filemounts are most likely only defined by admins - so why
>> limit things for them by default?
>> 
> Because some database field could have only a limited number of
> entries due to the field length restriction. I do not want to check
> that particular field but some fields are varchar, so they are limited
> to 255 characters only.
> 

file_mountpoints are varchar(255), same with db_mountpoints.

And if you need more than 10 - 12 mountpoints for BE-Usergroup/BE-user you 
should probably take a closer look on how the file repository is organised.


WBR,
Erik Svendsen
www.linnearad.no