Per user homestorage

[rullzer]

There are situations where not all users use the same type of homestorage.
Especially when migrating users on a live instance to a different kind of storage.

For example when migrating from POSIX storage to an ObjectStore (or vise versa).

I'm no ownCloud FS expert but how I envision this.

• For all users we store in the database the kind of homestorage they have
• We add an extra config variable to config.php to tell the system what kind of storage new users are going to get.

This way new users will use the new fancy storage directly. While we can migrate existing users slowly to the new storage.

@icewind1991 assigning to you as our FS guru.

CC: @cmonteroluque @DeepDiver1975

[icewind1991]

The idea discussed was that we generate a mount configuration for the home storage in the same way as we handle external storages and than use that to create the home storage.

This allows full flexibility of having different configurations/backends per user

[rullzer]

Yes that sounds good!

[rullzer]

@icewind1991 any idea how much work this will be. As it is needed for the object store work. Also we need to make sure that we do not kill any exisitng home storages.

[PVince81]

@rullzer what's the status ? I think you guys discussed an alternative approach ?

[PVince81]

Closing in favor of #29502

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