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Bug 39016 - Allow for files to have different URLs depending on type (for video streaming & range handling)
Allow for files to have different URLs depending on type (for video streaming...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Media storage (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: High normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Aaron Schulz
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Depends on:
Blocks: 40779
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Reported: 2012-08-03 17:39 UTC by Rob Lanphier
Modified: 2012-11-11 22:33 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Rob Lanphier 2012-08-03 17:39:19 UTC
More detail later.
Comment 1 Rob Lanphier 2012-08-03 18:25:08 UTC
In bug 36577, we discovered that Varnish doesn't currently do well with streaming large files.

Tim wrote in an email conversation on this subject:
> We could probably patch MediaWiki to use a different upload hostname
> for large files. The image row should already be loaded from the cache
> or database in all the relevant places, so there shouldn't be any
> overhead. Then we could use Squid or some specialized media streaming
> proxy for large files.

...to which Asher replied:
> This sounds like a good idea even if varnish becomes the right solution for
> all of our caching needs. We may want to select dIfferent storage for video
> caches, and we should be able to cache videos above swift without
> potentially evicting many images. 

This bug is about implementing this idea.
Comment 2 Nemo 2012-08-23 09:04:57 UTC
> Media storage?
Comment 3 Aaron Schulz 2012-10-12 22:00:54 UTC
Re-purposed.
Comment 4 Aaron Schulz 2012-10-15 18:37:54 UTC
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27855/
Comment 5 Aaron Schulz 2012-11-11 22:33:09 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27855/

Merged.

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