[ckan-dev] Hello and a question re filestores and architecture

Nigel Babu nigel.babu at okfn.org
Thu Dec 5 04:09:55 UTC 2013


Hello Jason,

Welcome to the dev list.  To answer your question, if you're only testing,
it's easy to just change the filestore type and it should just work.
However, we can't guarantee that for a production setup.

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On 5 December 2013 04:44, Jason Tan <jason.tan at ersa.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> Just joined the list so I first things first "Hello".
>
> My organisation has just decided to roll out a CKAN instance and I will be
> undertaking the tech work. We currently don't have CKAN installed, but I am
> planning the deploy, based on the online docco.
>
> I have a question about filestores:
>
> Is it possibly for a single instance of ckan to have more than one
> filestore?
>
> Initially I was hoping to add two filestores using 2 different kinds of
> storage to test if there is a clear advantage of one type over the other
> (i.e. SAN v NFS share), but I can also see scenarios later on where it
> might be useful to add a second (or 3rd or 4th ... ) store.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Jason
>
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