Directly Retrieve MogileFS Items

[James Byers]

MogileFS does exactly 1, 2, and 3.  The storage and retrieval of  
files is handled via HTTP PUT and HTTP GET.  When a MogileFS client  
looks up a file group+key, the tracker returns a set of URLs  
corresponding to file replicas.  You can use mogstored to store and  
serve files (the default perlbal webserver) or drop any reasonable  
webserver supporting PUT as a replacement.

James

On Apr 9, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Anthony Volodkin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am working on a web application which involves storing files  
> across several machines and then making them available via HTTP.
>
>
> I want to use MogileFS to manage these files.  It seems that I need  
> to use the MogileFS API to retrieve the files well as to store  
> them, increasing the retrieve overhead.
>
> Is it possible to:
>
> 1) Store a file using MogileFS which will replicate it to several  
> machines in this group of servers.
> 2) Make each MogileFS raw store directory on each server available  
> via HTTP with a web server.
> 3) Query MogileFS for the possible locations of a given key/file  
> and generate a URL which will directly fetch this file from the  
> correct web server.
>
>
> Can I do this with MogileFS?  Are there any other tools I should  
> look at?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Anthony Volodkin