Forum OpenACS Q&A: New File Storage included in 3.2.5???

1: New File Storage included in 3.2.5???

Posted by David Kuczek on 04/02/01 04:55 PM

I found this thread from October 2000 and Ben said that there might be a new file storage module with the 3.2.5 release.

Is this still a topic or is there any other path the file storage module will follow, like a new version within openacs 4.x?

Thanks

2: Response to New File Storage included in 3.2.5??? (response to 1)

Posted by Don Baccus on 04/02/01 10:46 PM

The first question's one for Roberto...

Regarding OpenACS 4.x, the file storage module in ACS 4.x is a rewrite based on the content repository. We've been discussing rewriting the content repository to optionally allow persistent object in either the db or filesystem - a best-of-all-worlds solution, perhaps?

3: Response to New File Storage included in 3.2.5??? (response to 1)

Posted by David Kuczek on 04/03/01 03:46 PM

Roberto,

does a new version of the file storage exist? Beside the October thread by Ben it wasn't mentioned anymore on the bboard. It would really help our platform, because it is integrated as a main module.

Thanks

4: Response to New File Storage included in 3.2.5??? (response to 1)

Posted by Roberto Mello on 04/03/01 04:27 PM

The new file-storage module was committed to CVS last night. It will
be released as BETA as there are some issues with it (that we'll be
able to quickly track down with the help of the community *hint). The
module will be disabled by default, with the old data model being
loaded unless you tell it specifically to load the new-file-storae.sql
data model.

5: Maybe it's a stupid question ;-) (response to 1)

Posted by Bruno Mattarollo on 04/03/01 04:40 PM

Hi there ... Maybe my question is dumb but why I started to see names on datamodels and tcl file with "ae"? Even files called "ae"... Excuse me but I didn't had latin at school so maybe it's my ignorance... Can someone enlighten me?

6: Response to New File Storage included in 3.2.5??? (response to 1)

Posted by David Kuczek on 04/03/01 05:14 PM

I am not sure if this is an answer to your question, because you didn't post an example, but i.e. within the events module there is a tcl file called venues-ae.tcl, which means that you can add and edit an event venue with this file. You can find it in events/admin/venues-ae.tcl I suppose...

7: Response to New File Storage included in 3.2.5??? (response to 1)

Posted by Bruno Mattarollo on 04/03/01 05:23 PM

Thanks ... I get the point now ... One example is the post from Roberto, just before mine ... But in that case it maybe just a typo but it reminded me of some other things I saw in ACS classic (3.x) like the Room reservation package ... But now that you mentionned that "ae" is not latin 😊 it's add/edit 😊 Will all this ArsDigita and other latin things it's easy to get confused ...

8: Response to New File Storage included in 3.2.5??? (response to 1)

Posted by David Kuczek on 04/03/01 05:40 PM

Roberto,

couple questions. Is it intended that we have

1.) two files in /www/doc/sql (file-storage.sql - new-file-storage.sql)
2.) files in /www/file-storage that are valueable for the new-file-storage but not for the old
3.) the old file in /tcl (file-storage-defs.tcl)

And then: Am I correct to believe that the new file storage will be quicker because it will save files inside the file-system and wouldn't have to perform the cpu intensive blob hack? Perhaps you or Ben could quickly name some changes between new and old.

Thanks

9: Response to New File Storage included in 3.2.5??? (response to 1)

Posted by Roberto Mello on 04/03/01 05:58 PM

Bruno: yes it was a typo. "storae" and "storage" are very close.

David: Since new-file-storage is beta, the plan is to have two
directories under www: file-storage and new-file-storage. And two sql
files.

It looks like we hade a little CVS confusion, but this will be
corrected before 3.2.5 is frozen (which should happen as soon as we
get the file-storage and intranet patches straightened out).

Since I am at it, I am committing the intranet patch that Chris Hardy
submitted and that was reviewed by Dan later today, so we may be able
to freeze 3.2.5 today to unleash the gates of testing :)