What is the difference between "Local", "Local (default)", and "file" for the Storage option

[markwilkinson]

Hi!

Running the vanilla docker, v. 5.13 build 1244-79d6e57

I'm configuring my root dataverse, and one of the options is "Storage". The dropdown has "Local", "Local (default)", and "file" as choices.

What is the difference between them? I thought that dataverse was, by default, file... so are they all the same thing?

My next question will be related to this one...

[pdurbin]

For what it's worth, we see the same confusion with our demo compose file at https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.4/container/running/demo.html

I don't know about this dataverse-docker repo but over at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/blob/v6.4/docker/compose/demo/compose.yml we just have the one file store, which on the filesystem.

It's defined like this:

-Ddataverse.files.storage-driver-id=file1
-Ddataverse.files.file1.type=file
-Ddataverse.files.file1.label=Filesystem
-Ddataverse.files.file1.directory=${STORAGE_DIR}/store 

So that's where "Filesystem" is coming from in the upstream repo. In this dataverse-docker repo, I'm not sure where the "Filesytem" label is coming from. 🤔

As for "Local"... I'm not sure where it comes from.

For another view we can use http://localhost:8080/api/admin/dataverse/storageDrivers which shows this:

{
  "status": "OK",
  "data": {
    "Local": "local",
    "Filesystem": "file1"
  }
}

I added this to the agenda of our next Containerization working group meeting because I'm curious if anyone else there knows what's going on. 😅

(@markwilkinson you're welcome to come to these meetings if you like!)

[markwilkinson]

@pdurbin I would probably enjoy that! But... you would have to arrange with the Supreme Being to add a few more hours to the day... ;-)