Re: [xwiki-users] Status of filesystem attachment storage.

On Jan 24, 2012, at 10:37 PM, Ryszard Łach wrote: Caleb can probably answer better here since he's the one who implemented this. My POV: * It's supposed to be usable * We need more real life reports that it's working fine in production * We've received some bug reports already. Several have been fixed, there might still be some open issues. You could search open issues about "filesystem" on http://jira.xwiki.org to know specific details * One current limitation I know is that clustering is not easily done since you need to cluster the filesystem. This can be achieved with a NFS mount for example. No idea. Caleb? Filesystem storage is not a perfect solution: * clustering issue mentioned above * it makes it harder to backup your XWiki system since you need to backup not only the DB but also the directory where the attachments are saved. It's nice to know that everything is in the DB. * the filesystem is one additional point of failure Ideally we would not need filesystem storage at all since DBs should be able to stream arbitrary data in a performant manner. In practice only some DBs support this (MySQL doesn't AFAIK). All that said I completely agree with your question. I'd also like that we answer it better and that we post this status on xwiki.org. So guys, can you complement/correct what I've said above so that we can get a correct statement about this feature? :) Thanks -Vincent