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 _______________________________________________ linaro-validation mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-validation
