Amazon's S3 is ideal for this, I use it I mount s3 using fuse interface.
Works pretty well for me.
Nils
On May 12, 2012 7:53 PM, "Sebastian E. Ovide" <sebastian.ov...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> just wondering... (I know that it is not a normal application)... where
> would you store a couple of millions pictures of less than 60K each ?
>
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> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Massimo Di Pierro <
> massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Oops. Sorry. I read it in a hurry.
>>
>> I would not use the file system for something like this. Anyway, upload
>> separate creates up to 1296 subfolder per table.field. This number can be
>> increased.
>>
>>
>> On Friday, 11 May 2012 18:33:22 UTC-5, Anthony wrote:
>>>
>>> On Friday, May 11, 2012 7:25:21 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> yes.
>>>>
>>>> Field('name','upload',**uploadseparate=True)
>>>>
>>>
>>> He's aware of that but seems to think that one level of sub-folders
>>> won't be enough (he's expecting millions of files, so still more than 1000
>>> files per sub-folder, even with uploadseparate=True).
>>>
>>> I don't think web2py includes any out-of-the-box solution for generating
>>> deeper levels of sub-folders for uploaded files. Maybe subclass Field for
>>> that upload field and roll your own .store() and .retrieve() methods.
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>>
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> Sebastian E. Ovide
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