Has there been any work done on separating the data storage of original images from the rest of Gallery2, as in these posts?
Basically, I see it working as follows:
- Users would upload images to a separate server (like Amazon S3)
- Images would Add to Gallery2 using something like the Add from Local Server using a symbolic link.
- All derivatives of the original (thumbnails, previews, etc.) would be created on and stay on the Gallery2 server.
- There would be an admin option to include a download link to the original (download only, not view).
- Finally, the maintainence module would have to be developed so that when rebuilding thumbnails and previews it checks the Amazon server and would remove/change/add any images that have been changed on that server by means outside of Gallery2.
What do you think?
Posted: Wed, 2007-05-30 20:28
