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> If you store them on a filesystem, how do you deal with redundancy / failover / scaling ? In most cases, using a solution like Amazon S3 will have all these
by fb03 9y ago
> If you store them on a filesystem, how do you deal with redundancy / failover / scaling ?
In most cases, using a solution like Amazon S3 will have all these three sorted out for you pretty good. And while it's not a full mountable filesystem, from a system development perspective it has a really good API for retrieving and storing files.
- eric_the_read 9y agoTechnically there is s3fs, but it's fairly terrible and I actively recommend against it. Still, it does come handy from time to time, in a limited set of cases.