[Owncloud] Use external Storage only

[Henning Schuster]

I also tried to modify the mount.json to point to "/" instead of "FTP". ownCloud said something like "no more space available" on the webinterface. I didn't dig deeper because I don't want to do this if it is not officially supported and well tested.




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> Von: "Nicholas Lessley" <nicholas at nicholaslessley.com>
> An: owncloud at kde.org
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2013 16:43:01
> Betreff: Re: [Owncloud] Use external Storage only
> 
> 
> 
> 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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