https://github.com/colinmollenhour/cm_mountstorage

Magento media storage driver using a mounted filesystem as a backend.
https://github.com/colinmollenhour/cm_mountstorage

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Magento media storage driver using a mounted filesystem as a backend.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/colinmollenhour/cm_mountstorage
• Owner: colinmollenhour
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-02-23T05:48:13.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-03-22T17:02:35.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-03T19:26:10.393Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: magento, nfs
• Language: PHP
• Size: 9.77 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Magento "Mount Storage"

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Magento already supports a central storage backend out of the box, but it uses MySQL which is

not ideal for storing large amounts of files (taking and restoring backups is slow and not very incremental).

However, the "lazy load" approach it uses with `get.php` is a wonderful overall design for easy management,

high availability, and local disk performance. This extension rewrites the Magento core model to instead

treat a separate mount point as the central storage, allowing you to use any filesystem that can be mounted

to a normal mount point without depending directly on that mount point and therefore being subject to

the downsides of a particular backend.

For example, NFS is a great way to share files on a local network, but then it becomes a single point

of failure. Using this extension you can point it to the NFS mount as the central storage location and

you will get essentially a local-disk cache of the NFS files that are used making the NFS mount no longer

a SPOF (assuming files are already cached when the NFS mount fails)!

Other examples of filesystems that could be used with this extension:

 - GlusterFS

 - Ceph

 - SSHfs (SSH over FUSE)

 - Amazon S3 over FUSE

 - etc...

Note, I built this to use with NFS and have only tested it with NFS, there could be side-effects, particularly

with race conditions between two writes to the same file depending on the properties of the remote filesystem being used.

Additionally, when using anything other than the local filesystem you should be aware that files are cached until they expire

and the expiration time is set by the "Environment Update Time" configuration. If you need to serve files from the media

directory that change more frequently than you set this expiration time you are possibly better off adjusting your web server

configuration to serve these files directly from the shared storage instead of the cache and keeping a longer expiration time.

Installation

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Install via modman or composer and configure in System > Configuration > System > Storage Configuration for Media.

Credit

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I used [Thai's S3](https://github.com/thaiphan/magento-s3) extension code to save some time with the boilerplate model rewrites

and such. Thanks, Thai Phan for sharing the clean extension code!