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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:03:11 -0300
From: Glaucio Scheibel <glaucio.scheibel@datasul.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Blob in another directory
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Hi Stefan,

At this time, I am only doing some tests for big repositories and one of 
the requisites is distributed workspaces. I need to store data in 
different hard drives, if I use internal blob's, it works.
I still not sure which is better: internal or external blob ;-)

Glaucio

Stefan Guggisberg wrote:
> hi glaucio,
>
> On 5/31/07, Glaucio Scheibel <glaucio.scheibel@datasul.com.br> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I look at the source codes and I found the cause:
>>
>> In DatabasePersistenceManager, if the externalBlob property is true, it
>> creates a new LocalFileSystem object using the context.getHomeDir
>> instead using the root path of context.getFileSystem. There is another
>> problem: the root path of a FileSystem is not readable, so I had to
>> change this property visibility to create the FileSystem with the
>> correct path.
>> This is a real problem for me because I need to create each workspace in
>> a separate paths. Till now the only solution is setting the externalBlob
>> property to false.
>
> you could e.g. override the init(PMContext) method in your
> DatabasePersistenceManager derived class as follows:
>
>    public void init(PMContext context) throws Exception {
>        super.init(context);
>
>        if (externalBLOBs) {
>            /**
>             * store BLOBs in a sub directory of the workspace's
>             * virtual file system
>             */
>            BasedFileSystem blobFS = new
> BasedFileSystem(context.getFileSystem(), "blobs");
>            blobFS.init();
>            this.blobFS = blobFS;
>            blobStore = new FileSystemBLOBStore(blobFS);
>        }
>    }
>
> however, i have difficulties understanding your requirement. could you 
> please
> elaborate why you need to locate the workspace home directories outside
> the repository home dir?
>
> cheers
> stefan
>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Glaucio
>>
>>
>> Glaucio Scheibel wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I created a workspace in another directory (outside the repository
>> > directory).
>> > The index and data files are correct stored in this directory, but the
>> > blob files still been stored inside the repository diretory.
>> > Jackrabbit create a directory with workspace name below the repository
>> > dir and put the workspace.xml file and the blob diretory there.
>> > I allready look at the PersistentManager but doesn't have any property
>> > to configure the directory of blob files.
>> > Is there a way to specify the directory of blob files?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Glaucio
>> >
>> >
>>
>