[TYPO3-dev] idea about shared cache_extensions db

[Steffen Kamper]

Dmitry Dulepov schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> Jeff Segars wrote:
>> There might also be some tie-in with the caching work that Dmitry, 
>> Ingo, and Olly did as part of Hacktontest.
> 
> Yes, this should be possible. Since we have many caching backends 
> available there, we can even store the information on the file system. 
> It does not have to be in the database really. It is not queried that 
> often. Once we have it in the new caching system, there could by an 
> extension with a CLI script to update the database from a cron job.
> 
> What do you think?
> 

+1 in general.
I expierienced also with SQLite which is file based and the performance 
is not bad even with big files.
Disadvantage of file based may be some web hosting packages which have a 
limited file space, but this all can be configurable to use the way fits 
best to the user.

vg Steffen