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Dustin Laine
Dustin Laine

Reputation: 38503

Dynamic file hosting on Azure

I am using Windows Azure for a custom blog implementation. The blog uses CKEditor and the CKFinder file management plugin. Typically the file management plugin connects to a file system directory to store the files. I need to store these as if it was a local directory and serve them through HTTP requests. In Azure you cannot rely on the file system to maintain through recycles.

I assume you are to use Azure Storage, but am at a loss as to how to do this. Is there a way to "mount" these storage systems to the file system? Am I correct in my assumptions to use storage? If not any guidance as to what I am missing?

Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 815

Answers (2)

Richard Astbury
Richard Astbury

Reputation: 2353

Or, you could use AzureBlobDrive to mount blob storage as a drive in Azure directly (no VHD, no limitation on only one instance being able to write).

https://github.com/richorama/AzureBlobDrive

Upvotes: 1

David Makogon
David Makogon

Reputation: 71033

You can actually mount a page blob as an NTFS drive, which is then a "durable drive" (just like any other blob), and you access it via a drive letter, just like a locally-attached (but volatile) drive.

The issue is that, using mounted drives, you may only have one writer, so this might cause challenges when scaling to multiple instances.

Take a look at this MSDN post to see an example of mounting a drive. Notice that, while the example doesn't set up any cache, you can specify a cache size. The cache is stored on a local disk resource.

EDIT: For a tutorial, download the Windows Azure Training Kit. Go to hands-on labs, and open Exploring Windows Azure Storage. Check out Exercise 4: Working with Drives.

Upvotes: 0

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