On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Tomaz Muraus (JIRA) <[email protected]>wrote:
> Local storage driver is not really meant (or should be) used for anything > other than playing with the API and testing it so number 1 seems good > enough to me. Actually, we do use local storage in production. We have a streaming video hosting product which can be deployed on a cloud or within a data center. The admin can configure storage locations (for each user), via a Django Admin form - which has three fields. Provider : [dropdown of available libcloud storage providers] Username : [text] Access key : [text] By allowing local storage, we are able to keep: 1) code very simple for deploying on local Data Center and Cloud. NFS/Samba mounted storage are also shown up under 'local' 2) code very simple for hybrid deployments (some users on local, some over cloud) 3) configuration options very simple and easy to use. Till date, it has worked very well for us, and I believe it will help other libcloud users too, specially for cases like ours. Regards, Mahendra
