From 8a58ee2124a6f9c7302037edbf4b1de704eea6f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roberto Rosario Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:16:11 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Expand the documentation chapter on file storage. --- docs/topics/file_storage.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/topics/file_storage.rst b/docs/topics/file_storage.rst index f02e38d7aa..ed39309c3e 100644 --- a/docs/topics/file_storage.rst +++ b/docs/topics/file_storage.rst @@ -26,3 +26,10 @@ not by the project but by the ``Storage`` module class. All the other modules don't make any assumptions about how the actual document files are stored. This way files can be saved locally, over the network or even across the Internet and everything will still operate exactly the same. + +The default file storage backend: ``storage.backends.filebasedstorage.FileBasedStorage`` +is a simple backend that only supports paths and not IP addresses. In case you +are interested in using remote volumes to store documents (NFS, SAMBA), first +mount these volumes so that they appear as a directories to Mayan EDMS. For +direct support for remote volumes a custom backend would be needed such as those +provided by the Django Storages project (https://django-storages.readthedocs.org/en/latest/).