Daniel Kinzler wrote:
I don't think we'll see very many huge TIFF files. But generally, uploading very large files is possible by doing a server side import. Setting up a process for this, and perhaps some nice tools, is something I have been thinking about. perhaps we'll offer a contract for that next year :)
-- daniel
Process? Tools? It would just be making a 'bigupload' right for people to bypass file size restrictions (or have a extremely high one). Then give it to sysops or a new group.
The only thing is not to get those users uploading giantic files when storage nodes are getting out of space. It could even be automated so bigupload right would only be effective if there's at least X or X% free space on disk.
Of course we would also need an interface able at least to continue interrupted uploads, to make it really useful. I did a proposal years ago based on a FTP upload interface. Maybe you are referring to something similar. Please keep me posted. Upload from URL and Firefogg should alleviate the issue, though.