On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Willie Slepecki <scpha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The last issue i'm dealing with before starting to write code is random > file storage. The application will have the ability to upload whatever, > images, pdf, etc, and i need to put them somewhere. (for the record, > Amazon S3 is not an option, long story) So i'm looking at a hugely > expensive raid array, or an insanely complex distributed file system. > > <cdfs> From what I can tell, it is a file system that does not like small > files ... [not a fs] I mean that in the sense, it wasn't designed to > map a drive to and drop files in with explorer ... Third, it looks like > it commercial, from that stax something company. ... Am i wrong about > any of this? > No. If you don't have the requirement of a POSIX filesystem with locking etc. (and if you do, you are probably Doing It Wrong..), you may want to use MogileFS. https://code.google.com/p/mogilefs/ Summary : - distributed file system designed to keep redundant copies of arbitrary sized files, which are uploaded and accessed via HTTP - uses MySQL as the meta-data store, so you keep it available in the same way you (probably already know how to) keep MySQL available - scales to more files than almost anyone has =Rob
