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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of > bjquinn > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:14 PM > To: [email protected] > 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. > -- > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
