files

Things are finally getting started. So for the first week Drupal 6 was settled on. So I was able to get a little familiar and get a good test environment set up for development. Some initial changes were made to file saving so that a private/public flag would be set (right now everything is considered public). Unfortunately the power supply on the computer I use for development died. So things might be a little slow until I get the new power supply on Thursday. Thus is life and so I'll get to really push myself over the next weekend ;).

I'm cross posting an issue here to let you guys know of this way:

Private and Public File Access

Banner.module isn't really guilty here. There are a lot more modules that do not work with private file access.

So, one of the big things with static file serving is that it requires an entire Drupal bootstrap, which sucks up a lot of system resources. We have work to do in Drupal/the File API to support some interesting scalability options, remote files, etc. etc.

But, I think there are some interesting models for doing highly scalable static file serving outside of Drupal (and Amazon's S3 is cool).