[TYPO3-dev] Why File mounts limited?

[Tapio Markula]

Erik Svendsen kirjoitti:
> 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.

I needed more once - I have a customer, who has much clients and many 
user groups and some users should see only some subfolders. So I really 
needed about 15 mountpoints to give access only to certain folders.

varchar was enough.