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Subject: NPM, CouchDB and big attachments
From: Alexander Shorin <kxepal@gmail.com>
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http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/11/26/npm-post-mortem/

> Move attachments out of CouchDB: Work has begun to move the package tarballs out of
> CouchDB and into Joyent's Manta service. Additionally, MaxCDN has generously offered to
> provide CDN services for npm, once the tarballs are moved out of the registry database.
> This will help improve delivery speed, while dramatically reducing the file system I/O load on
> the CouchDB servers. Work is progressing slowly, because at each stage in the plan, we are
> making sure that current replication users are minimally impacted.

I wonder is it CouchDB non-optimal I/O and/or can 769 issue fix it?

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-769

There is alpha-patch attached. May be it's good time to push it
forward? What things are left for it?

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