[Educational] FileSystemStorage vs blob

[Nate Aune]

Hi Kurt,

I would recommend using plone.app.blob which is likely to land in
Plone 3.5 and be the default way of handling external files for the
ATFile content type. Andi Zeidler (cc'ed) has done a lot of work
recently to get this working. http://plone.org/products/plone.app.blob

If you want to try it out, the easiest way is to testdrive the buildout:

svn co http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plone.app.blob/buildouts/plone-3.0 blobs
    cd blobs
    python2.4 bootstrap.py
    ./bin/buildout
    ./bin/instance fg

There's also a very comprehensive howto written up here:
http://myriadicity.net/Sundry/PloneBlobs

Nate

On 12/21/07, Kurt Bendl <kurt at tool.net> wrote:
> Thanks again for the buildout, Andreas!
>
> It got me thinking about UofL's implementation. We're hooking File and
> Image to use blob (http://plope.org/software/blob/) using BlobFile. We
> were strongly encouraged to go the blob route by the Enfold folks who
> we hired when we did our initial deployment about 2 1/2 years ago. It
> was a bit odd working with the way it handles at first, but blob does
> seems to work pretty well.
>
> I'd really like to hear everyone's opinion on storages. We're
> considering what it is going to take to migrate from 2.5.x to plone
> 3.0.x. How we're going to handle files is a big part of that.
>
> /me sits back and awaits the volley
>
>
> Best,
>   Kurt
>
>   Kurt Bendl
>   University of Louisville
>
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