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Given a desire to support restoring lost files and external file system management (via AFS, etc.), I am exploring a new implementation of Content Hosting based solely on a standard file system. Naturally, there are trade-offse with this approach. It may not be as fast as the existing implementation, and some way needs to be found to associate base files with their metadata files. Coupled with this is a desire (expressed by some) to implement some form of JSR-170.
See also, CH Project Notes
Planned Approach
- Map directory names and file names directly to an underlying (specified) file system.
- Save properties in a file called file-name.properties, where file name corresponds to the base file name.
- Save attachement references in a file called file-name.attachments.
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