On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Charlene Chinda Barina <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, per what I understand about bitstream storage, the two options are a > local directory and via SRB (or iRODS, if I want to go an unsupported > route). Is that a correct understanding?
Hi Charlene, that is correct, those are the two ways DSpace recognizes and supports. However, by local storage we mean *anything* that can be represented as a local filesystem path (i.e. mounts in unix-like systems and whatever the Windows equivalent is - drive mapping, hard links, DFS?). So if you already have a NAS or a server at your institution that exports directories, you can simply mount them at OS-level and point DSpace assetstore to the mounted directory. DSpace will work happily with it and won't care where it resides. Same goes for mostly anything else you can think of, like SMB/CIFS shares - they can be mounted locally and completely transparently to DSpace. The one thing I'd recommend against is sshfs as Peter suggested - while this is simply another protocol that can be used to mount remote directories, I'm pretty sure don't want the overhead of encryption to transfer files within your institution. If you had a SAN with iSCSI targets that you want to use, you'd connect to it from your DSpace system as a local block device, create a filesystem on it and mount it within your regular directory structure. From there it's the same local FS story again. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
