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

[Jan-Hendrik Heuing [netfielders]]

Nothing on the way as far as I know. But why do you not just add a common
filebase for the files and include them via NFS (no replication via NFS),
then you'd not produce that much overhead with the database-server...

jh

"Kevin Fredrick" <fredrikr at ipfw.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:mailman.1065728520.27750.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
> 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).
>