[ckan-dev] FileStore

Wed May 14 15:39:29 UTC 2014

Thank you guys for sharing your experience!

I will give it a try.

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
<maxious at gmail.com>wrote:

> We use NFS in production and the only issue was some race conditions
> with the FileStore file upload in older versions of CKAN (file was
> uploaded but an error could occur if the file wasn't yet visible on
> the next server to request that path - inserting a small delay
> resolved this).
> CKAN version 2.2 does file upload in a single API call and we have no
> timing or performance issues with that.
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Vitor Baptista
> <vitor at vitorbaptista.com> wrote:
> > Hi Fabrizio and Nigel,
> >
> > I have a different experience. I was able to set up a similar pair of
> > servers using NFS, which should make it transparent for CKAN. I'm not
> sure
> > about the performance implications of doing it, though. I feel it might
> > suffer with big files, but I haven't tested.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > 2014-05-13 7:24 GMT-03:00 Fabrizio Fornari <ckanappoggio at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Ok. Thank you for replying!
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Nigel Babu <nigel.babu at okfn.org>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> No, it's not. At least not easily. The filestore needs to access a
> local
> >>> disk.
> >>>
> >>> Nigel Babu
> >>> Developer, Open Knowledge
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> >>>
> >>> On 12 May 2014 21:54, Fabrizio Fornari <ckanappoggio at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi guys,
> >>>>
> >>>> I am installing ckan on different machines: 1) the front-end; 2)
> >>>> postgresql + solr. While doing so, I started wondering if it may be
> >>>> convenient/possible to store also the uploaded files on the second
> machine.
> >>>> Is that possible?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you!
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