[Owncloud] Use external Storage only

[Nicholas Lessley]

I have mounted S3 (using the "external storage" app) to the root before,
but it does not fail gracefully. Putting the mount folder as "/'.
Basically,  you cannot remove the share, without deleting the mount.json


Nicholas Lessley
http://nicholaslessley.com


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Henning Schuster <henning.schuster at gmx.de>wrote:

> Thanks for your answer!
>
> I have thought about mounting a network share to ownCloud's data
> directory. And I will probably do that in the beginning. Long term I want
> to use OpenSwift as my storage back end. OpenSwift is not designed to be
> mounted (yes there is a way to mount OpenSwift storage using CloudFuse but
> it seems to be far from ideal).
>
> So if there is an "official" way to use OpenSwift to replace ownCloud's
> data directory, I would be interested.
>
> Cheers,
> Henning
>
>
>
>
> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> > Von: "Arthur Schiwon" <blizzz at owncloud.com>
> > An: owncloud at kde.org
> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2013 14:16:08
> > Betreff: Re: [Owncloud] Use external Storage only
> >
> > On 05/08/2013 02:09 PM, Henning Schuster wrote:
> > > Hi List,
> > >
> > > I' running ownCloud 5.05. All files uploaded by my users should go
> > > to an external storage location. There shouldn't be any files
> > > stored locally on the server running ownCloud. I activated the
> > > external storage app and configured it to talk to a FTP server. My
> > > users see a new folder with name "FTP" in ownCloud. But I would
> > > like them to use the FTP share as their root directory.
> > >
> > > In other words: I would like to replace the local storage with a
> > > remote storage (e. g. a FTP share) for all my users.
> >
> > I'd try to mount the FTP storage on your server and make the data dir
> > point there.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Arthur
> >
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Henning
> > >
> > >
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