Esbach, Brandon wrote: So I take it nothing like this is in the works? :)

vmassol wrote: vmassol wrote: Just the part about storing attachments as files outside of the DB. Did Artem ever respond about the status of the JCR work? Would it in and of itself allow storing attachments as files outside of the DB or is it just a framework that would allow something like that if more work was done?

vmassol wrote: Sure, Google is my friend. :) What I was wanting to know, though, is whether the work you're doing will implement JCR in the sense that someone *could* write some code to allow attachments to be stored on the filesystem, or is allowing attachments to be stored on the filesystem *part* of the work that you're doing with JCR right now for a future xwiki release?

http://jackrabbit.apache.org/faq.html#whats-fs wrote: So does this mean that I will be able to mount the xwiki database as a filesystem or something?

Is that what you mean? And is this Jackrabbit stuff ready by v1.1?

Well, 1.2 is almost here... is the jackrabbit stuff ready, and can I store attachments in files??

Vincent Massol wrote: Sorry if jumping in this thread is not the most elegant way of = collaborate, but I've missed this option, to store attachments in the = file system, today. For instance: we use a lot of high resolution pictures in our work. If I = can store this images in the file system I can access them by using = "regular" drive mapping, web server access, sftp,... I mean: I could = keep relying on different clients to read the files while I could rely = on XWiki to easy the way users "load" files in the system. Hope this makes sense for you.

However I'm curious to know why you need attachments stored in the file system.

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(a)xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of bjquinn Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:14 PM To: users(a)xwiki.org Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Xwiki file and attachment storage vmassol wrote: 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. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Xwiki-file-and-attachment-storage-tf4214945.html#a1379 9175 Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

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: -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Xwiki-file-and-attachment-storage-tp11991466p16048620… Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users