[xwiki-users] Xwiki file and attachment storage

[Jean-Vincent Drean]

Sergiu was writing about it recently :
http://markmail.org/message/egls2u2anv6ttfs2?q=xwiki+list:org%2Exwiki%2Edevs+attachment

BTW I don't know if there's any ETA for this, Sergiu have you planned
to work on this in the coming weeks ?

JV.

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:16 PM, bjquinn <bjquinn at seidal.com> wrote:
>
>  Well with v1.3 coming out and 1.4 on the horizon, I was just wondering if
>  there had been any progress on this issue?
>
>  Thanks!
>
>  -BJ Quinn
>
>
>
>
>  vmassol wrote:
>  >
>  > 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-----
>  >> From: users-bounces at xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces at xwiki.org] On
>  >> Behalf Of
>  >> 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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