Well with v1.3 coming out and 1.4 on the horizon, I was just wondering if
there had been any progress on this issue?

Thanks!

-BJ Quinn


vmassol wrote:
> 
> Just to be clear. We're all in favor of having the ability to store  
> attachments using webdav. It'll happen eventually.
> 
> the only thing lacking right now is manpower.
> 
> Thanks
> -Vincent
> 
> On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:47 PM, Pavel wrote:
> 
>> One more upside is that with filesystem attachments you can easily use
>> streams and never hold whole attachment in memory.
>> This is really necessary for scalable deployment.
>>
>> And BTW there is no max_packet_size restriction as well.
>>
>> One can also do streaming with db BLOBs, but not via hibernate I  
>> believe.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Behalf Of
>> bjquinn
>> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:14 PM
>> To: users@xwiki.org
>> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Xwiki file and attachment storage
>>
>>
>>
>> vmassol wrote:
>>>
>>> However I'm curious to know why you need attachments stored in the
>>> file system.
>>>
>>
>> Because many of these attachments may be large (>50MB), and over  
>> time the
>> database can grow to be unweildy.  Currently that's our problem with  
>> our
>> exchange server setup (people keep emailing these files back and  
>> forth as it
>> stands now *shudder*).  The upside of storing attachments in a  
>> filesystem is
>> easier access from other clients (as the other poster suggested), less
>> likelihood of corruption on large databases (our Exchange DB is 200+  
>> GB
>> right now), less likelihood of backup problems, copy-only-what's- 
>> changed
>> backups, and quicker backup and restore time.
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