Today, browsing around, I found Ben Martin's article on Using MySQL as a filesystem. The articles uses MySQLfs to get the desired results. Not 100% what I was looking for but still a good read. Ben writes:
With MySQLfs you can store a filesystem inside a MySQL relational database. MySQLfs breaks up the byte content of files that you store in its filesystem into tuples in the database, which allows you to store large files in the filesystem without requiring the database to support extremely large BLOB fields. With MySQLfs you can throw a filesystem into a MySQL database and take advantage of whatever database backup, clustering, and replication setup you have to protect your MySQLfs filesystem.
