Mercurial > hg > orthanc-book
changeset 746:b2b1ba11faaa
grow storage area
| author | Sebastien Jodogne <s.jodogne@gmail.com> |
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| date | Sat, 07 Aug 2021 10:40:52 +0200 |
| parents | 1c125224a9e9 |
| children | 56d48f6e52cc |
| files | Sphinx/source/faq/scalability.rst Sphinx/source/plugins/object-storage.rst |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/Sphinx/source/faq/scalability.rst Mon Aug 02 09:42:03 2021 +0200 +++ b/Sphinx/source/faq/scalability.rst Sat Aug 07 10:40:52 2021 +0200 @@ -127,10 +127,21 @@ `Btrfs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs>`__ on GNU/Linux distributions. -* On GNU/Linux distributions, `LVM (Logical Volume Manager) - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(Linux)>`__ - can be used to dynamically and easily grow the storage area as more - space becomes needed. +* If you need to grow the storage area as more space becomes needed, + you can consider the following solutions: + + - Move the storage area to another disk partition, and update the + ``StorageDirectory`` :ref:`configuration option <configuration>` + accordingly. + - :ref:`Replicate <replication>` your current instance of Orthanc + onto another instance of Orthanc with a larger storage area. + - On GNU/Linux distributions, check out `LVM (Logical Volume Manager) + <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(Linux)>`__. + - On Microsoft Windows, check out the so-called "`Storage Spaces + <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/overview>`__". + - Another approach is to use `MinIO <https://docs.min.io/>`__ in + distributed mode in conjunction with the :ref:`AWS S3 plugin + <minio>` for Orthanc. * If using the :ref:`DICOMweb server plugin <dicomweb-server-config>`, consider setting configuration option ``StudiesMetadata`` to