[TYPO3-core] RFC: Make image hash names longer to avoid collisions

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Martin Kutschker wrote:
> I wouldn't mess the with the current implementation of 
> t3lib_div::shortMD5().
> 
> I'd change any occurences of this function in the Core where it's used 
> to create filenames. Should be easy, but we need to advise our users to 
> clear the typo3temp directory! *
> 
> Then I'd see where these short MD5s are used in the DB. Of course we can 
> change it there as well, but we have to make sure that clearing a 
> temp/cache table is enough after a switch to real MD5 hashes.
> 
> And of course we must deprecate the function :-)

+1 for this.

> * Maybe we can optimize the directory layout of typo3temp while doing 
> that. Eg we know that BE thumbs and FE images clutter up the directory. 
> We could (if we start the filenames with the hash) add subdir named 0-9 
> and a-f to distributes the file a bit.

Harder to manage...

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