Storing many small files to MySQL

[Patinya Sangiamchit]

I have many of small files store in complex directory, such as /data/2009/03/29/someid/data/detail.txt. (the directory structure is just to prevent too many files in single dir)

The files (about 100k-500k files) have size about 10k to 100kbytes. I'm thinking, will it be faster if I move these small files to MySQL and access via PK. Will MySQL give me lower access time than ext3 file system? (of course, mysql data file still in ext3 partition but i think it may be faster because os doesn't need to travel deep in directory?)

Thanks ;)