I am developing a pattern for Seafile to use local-storage in non-standard way. Essentially, Seafile can see all the blocks in local-storage, and can access them without a problem, but my system has those block-files pulled to the local server on access. It would be similar to the way S3 is accessed (meaning the blocks are on remote storage). However, I am NOT using S3, and Seafile Server sees local-storage.
So, my question is whether Seafile handles how it reads blocks based on the storage medium?
Background:
- I uploaded a 1GB video via web. The blocks were written and read directly from local-storage. When I viewed the file via web, it took about 5 seconds to load, and I was able to seek with no delay.
- When I moved the blocks to the remote storage, it took close to a minute just to load the video, and seeking was similar to that. I expected some delay to pull enough blocks to buffer, but not that long. I seemed like Seafile was pulling down all the blocks prior to playing.