[OGo-Users] sence of var lib documents

Adam Tauno Williams users@opengroupware.org
Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:47:30 -0500


> > Why would it be stored in the database?
> to have one place, where everything is stored.

Understood.
 
> > Since all the access to content in OGo is through a logic layer there
> > aren't really any penalties to the current method.  Applications use the
> > logic layer, or the logic layer via an RPC method, and the information
> > comes from the correct place.
> if you want more than one ogo application-server (different version, 
> more performance) as you mentoined in an other email to, you have only half of the data.
> but i think every solution has advantages/disadvantages, so its ok. 
> (maybe locate /var/lib/opengroupware/documents on a nfs-share ;)

Yep, and that works well.  But I'd recommend using a shared filesystem
over shared media (GFS+iSCSI) vs. NFS for performance reasons.  OGo
doesn't ever seem to use range locking in its BLOB space,  so either
configuration should work fine.