Dear Robert et al., On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 07:15, Robert Tansley wrote: > 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.
Over the past few weeks I've been using Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3): http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=16427261 At this point I've merely been using it to backup web servers and development directories. This has involved the simple upload of compressed tarballs (using the Java app. jSh3ll) but also the synchronising of file systems (using the Ruby app. s3sync). In all, I've been pleasantly surprised by the results. It would seem that the S3 storage system promises to be more resilient than anything I could build at a reasonable cost. Although I've only been using S3 for remote backup, it seems that it can also be used as a live file system for storing and retrieving data for web apps. I am wondering then, if anyone, may be able to suggest how it might be possible to configure (cajole) DSpace-1.4 into using S3 as an assetstore. The Amazon blurb says that S3: `Uses standards-based REST and SOAP interfaces designed to work with any Internet-development toolkit.' Best regards, Richard MAHONEY -- Richard MAHONEY | internet: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/ Littledene | telephone/telefax (man.): +64 3 312 1699 Bay Road | cellular: +64 27 482 9986 OXFORD, NZ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Indica et Buddhica: Materials for Indology and Buddhology Repositorium: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/repositorium/ Philologica: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/philologica/ Subscriptions: http://subscriptions.indica-et-buddhica.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
