[Building Sakai] Drop Box Question

[Stephen Marquard]

The upload speed is really only limited by your network and I/O throughput.

In working on KNL-205 (support for files > 2G), I uploaded GB-sized files a few times, and it wasn't that slow.

If you are working with GB-sized files in Sakai though, you probably want to use recent 2-6-x (maybe with 1.0.x kernel rather than the last released kernel), as there are a couple of fixes to prevent file bodies being loaded into memory for various operations.

Cheers
Stephen 
 
>>> "Jon Wheat" <jwheat at messiah.edu> 9/24/2009 3:55 PM >>> 
This is sort of dev-list-ish -
 
We have a graduate program that requires the students produce video projects that profs want placed in the drop box.
Couple questions arise -
 
Aside from the rediculous amount of time it'll take to upload a 1G video into sakai (and the session not timing out)
 
[File Space] : Has anyone else done this with rather large files?  - server file space is going to eventually be an issue, and the properties setting is global, correct?
[Server Location] : Is there a way to configure the drop box to place uploaded content on another server / mapped directory ?
[Others] : Has anyone tackled a similar situation like this a different way ?
 
the other solution would be an FTP server and have them use SFTP or something to upload it.  I guess then if their connection drops / times out, they can pick it up where they left off.
 
thoughts ?
 
-Jon
 
 
 
 
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