[Typo3-dev] Is anybody working on a project to store files inside the typo3 database?

[Kevin Fredrick]

Is anybody working on a project to store files inside the typo3 
database? We are in real need of this feature.

Yes, I know about the problems of storing files inside a database. But 
we already have an electronic document management system (PHP, MySQL) 
with 15,000+ users and 4,000+ TXT, HTML, XML, PDF, Word, Sound, and 
Video files.

The problem with the current file problem is replication. We have a 
database cluster and a Web server farm. When a user needs to access a 
file (delete, upload, edit, …) they need to do that work from a master 
server in the Web server farm. Then the server farm replicates the files 
to its servers. Yes you can us NFS (…ok…), rsync/ssh (…better…), or 
scp/ssh (…ok…) with some type of cron/batch system.

We tend to add Word, PDF, or media files to a Web site on a daily basis 
and the bottleneck is that master server. Our database cluster handles 
replication and load balancing very well. Moving files or changing 
content into the database would allow for more timely updates. Caching 
could help with the need to retrieve the files from a database and 
server them up to the user (similar to the way typo3 pages/content is 
cached).