Just wanted to find out if there is any particular reason for using /files/2008/09/myimage.jpg instead of /wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2008/09/myimage.jpg?
Apart from the pretty url's is there any other reason for using /wp-content/blogs.php to serve static files?
The reason I ask is this seemingly uses server resources unnecessarily. Nginx can serve millions of static files comfortably with low memory and cpu. By serving these files through php it dramatically lowers the amount of static files that can be served on my server, (unless I use nginx fastcgi cache).
If there is no other reason other than pretty url's for using blogs.php then I may write a plugin to override, this feature so that statics can be served directly from nginx.