CouchDB attachments manta thread

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@isaacs Along with what @konobi said — how feasible are static files which I can use as a local registry? I'd like to mimimize my operational overhead. On my end, something like nginx which serves all the files from a directory. For upstream, ppl can wget on a regular basis which would make running mirrors a lot, lot easier as well

Also, I've never heard of Manta — what exactly is this? Joyent's version of S3? Also, is there anything to see yet and try?

@till

Manta is http://www.joyent.com/products/manta. There's an SDK and docs. Because the files are in my public storage location, you can read them, link them to your space, run jobs over them, etc.

This much is already done. As of this moment, tarballs are being served through Fastly from Manta, not from CouchDB. They still are in CouchDB as attachments, but unless you're hitting the CouchDB endpoint directly (or if Manta doesn't have the file yet), you will be getting them from Manta.

It's probably not trivial to use static files as a local registry, at least, not one that you could write to. I haven't explored that.