[xwiki-users] Xwiki file and attachment storage

[Vincent Massol]

Just to be clear. We're all in favor of having the ability to store  
attachments using webdav. It'll happen eventually.

the only thing lacking right now is manpower.

Thanks
-Vincent

On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:47 PM, Pavel wrote:

> One more upside is that with filesystem attachments you can easily use
> streams and never hold whole attachment in memory.
> This is really necessary for scalable deployment.
>
> And BTW there is no max_packet_size restriction as well.
>
> One can also do streaming with db BLOBs, but not via hibernate I  
> believe.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> bjquinn
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:14 PM
> To: users at xwiki.org
> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Xwiki file and attachment storage
>
>
>
> vmassol wrote:
>>
>> However I'm curious to know why you need attachments stored in the
>> file system.
>>
>
> Because many of these attachments may be large (>50MB), and over  
> time the
> database can grow to be unweildy.  Currently that's our problem with  
> our
> exchange server setup (people keep emailing these files back and  
> forth as it
> stands now *shudder*).  The upside of storing attachments in a  
> filesystem is
> easier access from other clients (as the other poster suggested), less
> likelihood of corruption on large databases (our Exchange DB is 200+  
> GB
> right now), less likelihood of backup problems, copy-only-what's- 
> changed
> backups, and quicker backup and restore time.
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