James Westby <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:31:08 +1200, Michael Hudson-Doyle 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Multi-machine data
>> ==================
>> 
>> Accessing postgres from another machine is a solved problem, to put it
>> mildly :-)
>> 
>> I don't have a good idea on how to access media files across the
>> network.  In an ideal world, we would have a Django storage backend that
>> talked to something like http://ceph.com/ceph-storage/object-storage/ or
>> http://hadoop.apache.org/hdfs/ -- we don't need anything like full file
>> system semantics -- but for now, maybe just mounting the media files
>> over NFS might be the quickest way to get things going.
>
> Is it possible to have the other machines explicitly fetch the files
> they need from the current primary machine?

All (or at least >1) nodes need to write.

> That avoids having to set up infrastructure to share files in this
> manner at the cost of having the fetches going on (which should be
> reasonably quick)

Otherwise that would be a great idea :-)

We could do something like have all files be written locally (only one
node will need to write to a given file) and served over http to other
nodes but eh.  I don't want to implement something myself here.

> If implicit sharing is wanted/needed then ceph/hdfs seems to be a great
> way to go, or nfs to start with as you say.

Cheers,
mwh

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