I also tried to modify the mount.json to point to "/" instead of "FTP". ownCloud said something like "no more space available" on the webinterface. I didn't dig deeper because I don't want to do this if it is not officially supported and well tested.
----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- > Von: "Nicholas Lessley" <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2013 16:43:01 > Betreff: Re: [Owncloud] Use external Storage only > > > > I have mounted S3 (using the "external storage" app) to the root > before, but it does not fail gracefully. Putting the mount folder as > "/'. Basically, you cannot remove the share, without deleting the > mount.json > > > > Nicholas Lessley > http://nicholaslessley.com > > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Henning Schuster < > [email protected] > wrote: > > > Thanks for your answer! > > I have thought about mounting a network share to ownCloud's data > directory. And I will probably do that in the beginning. Long term I > want to use OpenSwift as my storage back end. OpenSwift is not > designed to be mounted (yes there is a way to mount OpenSwift > storage using CloudFuse but it seems to be far from ideal). > > So if there is an "official" way to use OpenSwift to replace > ownCloud's data directory, I would be interested. > > Cheers, > Henning > > > > > ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- > > Von: "Arthur Schiwon" < [email protected] > > > An: [email protected] > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2013 14:16:08 > > Betreff: Re: [Owncloud] Use external Storage only > > > > > > On 05/08/2013 02:09 PM, Henning Schuster wrote: > > > Hi List, > > > > > > I' running ownCloud 5.05. All files uploaded by my users should > > > go > > > to an external storage location. There shouldn't be any files > > > stored locally on the server running ownCloud. I activated the > > > external storage app and configured it to talk to a FTP server. > > > My > > > users see a new folder with name "FTP" in ownCloud. But I would > > > like them to use the FTP share as their root directory. > > > > > > In other words: I would like to replace the local storage with a > > > remote storage (e. g. a FTP share) for all my users. > > > > I'd try to mount the FTP storage on your server and make the data > > dir > > point there. > > > > Cheers > > Arthur > > > > > > > > Best, > > > Henning > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Owncloud mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Owncloud mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > > > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > > > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
