On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Caleb James DeLisle
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to switch filesystem attachments to begin using the persistent 
> storage directory now instead of the work directory.
> This means there's a new way of calculating where the attachments will be 
> stored so it might fail on upgrade.
> I would like to not do any migration and just add to the release notes 
> because:
> #1, it doesn't cause any permanent harm so long as nobody adds attachments 
> while it's in what is an obviously broken state.
> #2 administrators who have FS attachments enabled are probably going to know 
> what's going on.
> #3 migration code is scary, it requires lots of work and lots of review and 
> even if it works,
> people might feel violated having files shuffled around on their system 
> without their permission.
>
> WDYT?

+1 and +1 for no migration by default too. If admin did his job
properly, work dir and permanent dir are supposed to be the same
anyway and if the permanent dir is not set then admin just need to set
it and it OK.

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