On 11-03-22 01:22 AM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote:
[...]
Also I wonder why not go directly from a MediaWiki FileRepo using REST
calls straight into Riak. That's more or less what Russell is building
for us except the backend will be Swift.
[...]
I actually asked Artur about that myself, I was contemplating building a
FileRepo store using GridFS (since one of my potential environments
would already have distributed MongoDB theoretically).
iirc it was something to do with different edge cases popping up and
causing bugs for anything not filesystem based. Also, iirc most of the
FileRepo related to thumbnailing actions is fairly FS geared. I did
check and found that most of the programs can handle fetching images
over http but that was probably one of the big sources of edge cases and
bugs.
That being said, since this is a Wikimedia project having the FileRepo
cleaned up so that non-fs based file storage is a viable option without
buggyness would be beautiful.
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