Some issues about files and images. File Storage on our site currently handles 40.000 files of up to 10MB size. What we realized the hard way: Get it out of the DB and store it in the filesystem. Oracle does not seem to be good at handling this situation. So if you store the images in the database, you might think about getting them out there and onto a RAID 5 external diskarray.
P.S.: SuSE is the right choice for running Oracle though 7.3 is pretty sleek and allows you to select out of more journaling file systems (something you definitly want to use instead of ext2).
