On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Aaron Schulz aschulz4587@gmail.com wrote:
I'm starting to finish the initial coding for the FileBackend branch (see https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/FileBackend). I still have to get to thumb.php and img_auth.php though. Simple testing of uploads, re-uploads, moves, deletes, restores, and such are working on my local testwiki.
Hi folks,
A few more details on this. Aaron is trying to get some important refactoring work done in service to this project: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SwiftMedia
We'd like to land this code in trunk as soon as we can, shake out the inevitable bugs, and get this rolled out to the cluster as part of 1.19. That will then make it possible for us to complete the migration from NFS as our file storage tech to Swift. That in turn will enable us to greatly expand our file capacity on commons, as well as making it so that we no longer have a scary single point of failure for file storage on the Wikimedia cluster.
Rob