[EP-tech] EP 3.3 and back-end file storage

[Ian Stuart]

I've been looking at changing how I store files with my repository.

For various reasons, I run my repository load-balanced between two 
data-centers - and I currently do this by having two EPrints 
installations that share a database, and both mount the same file-system 
for ..../documents & ..../html

This cross-mounted file-system is a horrible bodge, and I want to 
replace it.

Under EPrints 3.3, storage has been pulled out into Plugins - however 
looking at the generate_* stuff, it all comes back to 
EPrints::Page::write_to_file... and that does an

   open(my $fh, ">:utf8", $filename)

So - are the "storage plugins" just for deposited objects (the .pdfs, 
the .docs, uploaded to the server) , or am I missing something ?

-- 

Ian Stuart.
Developer: ORI, RJ-Broker, and OpenDepot.org
Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team,
EDINA,
The University of Edinburgh.

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