[seam-dev] Page fragment cache with JBoss Treecache, ehcache and a FileSystemCache

[Christian Bauer]

On May 03, 2008, at 11:48 , Pete Muir wrote:
>> FileSystemCache
>> Manually written, idea: a large site cannot be hold in a cache  
>> being present in memory. This cache has a small in memory area  
>> holding very frequent files (size can be configured) and fetches  
>> files from disk.
>> Though the operation system caches access to disk, this is still a  
>> lot slower than memory access but probably faster than having  
>> complex queries to the database (see Seam Wiki queries)
>
> I'm not quite sure why we need this?

Given that ehcache supports configurable overflow to disk, I concur.