We considered this way back when (2001); we decided on using the filesystem because some files might be very very large, there might be lots of them and in general it's easier to split filesystem-based asset stores across multiple drives/machines than a big relational database.
That said, the intention was that storage would be made pluggable -- so you could have RDBMS, SRB/iRODs, open-source GoogleFileSystem, LOCKSS-ish etc. storage. That pluggability ended up being one of the many non-critical-for-version-1 features we had to drop to get DSpace 1.0 finished :-) There are some projects (e.g. the MIT ones) looking at how to really accomplish this. Rob On 11/04/07, Ryan Ordway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a reason why only the metadata is stored in the database and not > the actual assetstore bitstreams? Has anyone considered changing the > physical storage from the filesystem to the database? I'm working on > building some redundancy into my infrastructure and it's looking like the > most efficient way to store the assetstore data in clustered configurations > would be in the database, especially when your database is already clustered > across multiple systems. Your database gets much larger, but you don't have > to worry about keeping your assetstores synchronized, etc. > > Any thoughts? Anyone to blame? ;-) > > Ryan > > -- > Ryan Ordway E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unix Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] > OSU Libraries, Corvallis, OR 97370 Office: Valley Library #4657 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
