topic Re: Distribute content store over multiple drives? in Alfresco Archive

Distribute content store over multiple drives?

bmooney — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:31:18 GMT

Would anyone be able to tell me if it is possible to configure alfresco so that the content store is distributed acrosss multiple drives?

Re: Distribute content store over multiple drives?

jbarmash — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:17:15 GMT

You can configure to have SOME workspaces on different drives by ovewriting where they are stored. It's certainly wise to separate where Lucene indexes are stored and the content store.

From repository.properties

dir.contentstore=${dir.root}/contentstore
dir.contentstore.deleted=${dir.root}/contentstore.deleted
dir.auditcontentstore=${dir.root}/audit.contentstore

# The location for lucene index files
dir.indexes=${dir.root}/lucene-indexes

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So you can definitely store audit content and deleted content somewhere else.

You might also be able to add new content stores, and point them to new file systems, although I am not sure about that as much.

Another way is to overwrite content service. Recently somebody wrote a content service that stores data in Amazon's S3, for example.

Re: Distribute content store over multiple drives?

janv — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:51:17 GMT

It would also be possible to implement a routing content service, based on some relevant context. Refer to: http://dev.alfresco.com/resource/docs/java/repository/org/alfresco/repo/content/AbstractRoutingContentStore.html

In Alfresco 2.9, the multi-tenant option uses this to (optionally) allow tenant stores to be at partitioned at different root directories, see http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/MT#Tenant_Content_Routing (and TenantRoutingFileContentStore for example code).

Regards,
Jan