On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 22:47 -0400, Don Gourley wrote: > On Tue, June 12, 2007 9:58 pm, Jimmy wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to store the assets(bit stream) on another server but not the DSpace > > application server . > > > > Is there any other solution? > > Here's one: NFS > Another one, what we use but not exactly 'on another server', is: SAN
More generically - anything you can mount as a general purpose file system can potentially be used as the asset store. So, as stated, any NFS or Samba (Windows share) export can be mounted and used. You could even create a distributed block device using DR:BD and spread the asset store over a number of servers. Note that for any block device that can potentially be mounted concurrently by a number of systems (DR:BD, SAN, etc.), it is advisable to use a clustered file system on them (ie. OCFS2, GFS). Potentially, it could even be a virtual file system - although not open source, there are solutions that will allow you to mount Amazon's S3 service as a regular filesystem. And this is all based on using DSpace as it stands - just using the standard filesystem access (and simply by either changing the assetstore directory in your dspace.cfg, or using a symbolic link to the mounted storage you wish to use). Potentially, plugins could provide other solutions, but I'm not aware of any that are available to use (although I believe there has been some discussion regarding an Amazon S3 plugin). G ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
