+1 We can even obsolete the blob store on favour of the package store (once it is renamed to file store). We built the package store as a general purpose distributed file store. Since we were running fast with the package manager, we didn't advertise it for all of its capabilities as a generic file store. We didn't want to distract ourselves then, and didn't want to release it without a full security audit. Now is a good time to leverage the potential of the package store as a filestore for all our needs.
On Fri, 25 Sep, 2020, 6:02 pm David Smiley, <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote: > I'm looking to see that we can deprecate "userfiles" and remove for 9.0 > > Solr has a "userfiles" directory under Solr home that Jason added in some > issue relating to streaming expressions accessing a local file. I bet only > a few of you have even heard of it. I think the "File Store" that came > along with the package manager obsoletes "userfiles". If you have not > heard of the file store either, I wouldn't be surprised -- it's new and > it's name was changed from "package store" last minute, since it's general > purpose, with "packages" being a directory at the root of the file store > for packages. It's documented as the "package store" (should be renamed) > on the package manager internals doc: > https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/8_6/package-manager-internals.html#package-store > However IMO it's worthy of its own doc page as it's a very useful new > component of the Solr platform. It can store "user files" (hence > obsoleting the userfiles dir), ML models, or basically any file that's too > large to put in ZK. I'd be nice if SolrResourceLoader could resolve > resources from it -- an issue for another day. That would be another > avenue of use separate from the configSet. You can already upload single > files to the file store :-) > > ~ David Smiley > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley >
