topic Remote Filesystem in Alfresco Archive

Remote Filesystem

ksapenov — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:33:53 GMT

Hi, I'm trying to set alf_data to remote filesystem mounted locally and have some problems.It's just a proof of concept and might have lots of drawbacks. The idea is to use Amazon Simple Storage Service for storing all repository assets there and thus have unlimited (elastic) size device. You can ge

Re: Remote Filesystem

tiendoan — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:52:59 GMT

Hi Khaz

Did you ever get this issue resolve? I'm interested in possibly using s3 as storage as well.

Regards

Tien Doan

Re: Remote Filesystem

ksapenov — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:06:31 GMT

Hello Tien,
I'm analyzing another way of managing diskspace based on GFS http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs.html ,
where file operations are broken into multiple parallel processes,
thus increasing throughput (i hope alfresco will tolerate latency time).

regards,
Khaz Sapenov

Re: Remote Filesystem

tiendoan — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:50:55 GMT

Hello Khaz

as far as I know, GFS only exists in Google (i.e., google doesn't offer it commercially anywhere).

I hope you are not thinking about rolling your own solution, are you ? Hadoop, a lucene sub-project, is an open-source GFS-clone that is being rolled but imho, it is still too pre-mature. Currently, I've been monitoring GlusterFS http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_Roadmap (look at their plan for 1.5); when i saw your post, I thought perhaps you have already worked out a solution.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Maybe we will run into each other again on GlusterFS mailing list.

Regards

Re: Remote Filesystem

alexander — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:59:13 GMT

Hi

Just wanted to point out, that placing Lucene indexes on remote filesystem might not be a great idea from performance point of view. Alfresco heavily depends on Lucene for most operations. The error posted above is caused by Lucene locks.

If you place indexes locally, remote filesystem solely for content itself might work

Thanks
Alexander

Re: Remote Filesystem

ksapenov — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:09:21 GMT

Thanks, Alexander !
Very good point, I'll give it a try.

Re: Remote Filesystem

subemontes — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:14:15 GMT

And how do u Configure Indexes Locally and Data in another Share ?
Will it affect on Gigabit Lan between Server and share ? (is a NEtApp Filer)