Gabriel Wicke wrote:
I'm still wondering how the images are stored currently- on the hd of a single Server? They don't seem to be in the database. Once we use a cluster of Apaches the files need to be available to all servers. The easiest solution might be to mount the media dir from a fileserver (with a big Raid array) via nfs.
Does nfs still stink? I know that it used to be common wisdom that you never webserve stuff from nfs, because the performance was disastrous. Probably some smart apache rewriting could solve this for the most part, i.e. if a server doesn't have a requested image locally, it tries to get it via nfs and *keeps* it locally for future reference.
Probably Brion has more good ideas about how to handle images on our proposed architecture.
--Jimbo