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

[Adam Field]

Hi Ian

	From my (admittedly hazy memory), the storage plugins are for the documents, not the html.

--
Adam

On 20 Feb 2015, at 10:53, Ian Stuart <Ian.Stuart at ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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