ArticleStorageFS migration questions - Database load question

[finalbeta2]

Good day,

I'm currently running latest Znuny stable (6.5.*).
We noticed performance drops and think we traced it to tickets with Email signatures containing many images.
Seems if you have a mail conversation with Emails that contain many images, and replies multiplying this, the database is getting hammered.
Each image seems to be a database connection.

I have a few questions about migrating to ArticleStorageFS.

* I'm wondering if switching to ArticleStorageFS would also include these images, and result in much less database load?
* I found documentation for 7.1 ( https://doc.znuny.org/znuny-7_1/standar ... index.html ), but not for 6.5.*. are the steps the same? Does documentation exist for 6.5?

Thanks for anyone offering insights.