[Maas-devel] File-storage replication; was MAAS testing: maas - 0.1+bzr1002+dfsg-0+1018+87~ppa0~quantal1

[Gavin Panella]

On 20 September 2012 02:01, Julian Edwards <julian.edwards at canonical.com> wrote:
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> It depends!  Can you reconcile the files in MEDIA_ROOT against the entries in
> the database table `maasserver_filestorage`?  If they got out of sync it's
> possibly a bug but it's more likely that someone deleted the files/database
> rows manually and didn't get it right.

This reminded me of one reason to use MongoDB that we're going to
miss: replication for filestorage on region controllers (via gridfs).
Solution: put the files in PostgreSQL bytea fields?