oCIS with natural file storage

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Hello!
I’m coming from Nextcloud and would love to switch to OwnCloud OCIS. However, for data security reasons and due to other programs that need access to my cloud files, I am dependent on the cloud files (the files in my cloud) being stored as “normal” files on the host system. (As is the case with Nextcloud and I believe also Owncloud “Normal”).

So I upload a video.mp4 file and somewhere in the file system is this video.mp4 file.

During my test OCIS installation, I noticed that OCIS saves the files in “blob” (?) format. (So no video.mp4 but a nested folder structure)

I would like to use OCIS in my production environment, but I can’t if OCIS saves the files in this way.
Is there a way to let OCIS save the files in a natural way?

It’s really the only catch for me and I would really like to use OCIS.
I am grateful for any answer!

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You might want to try this: PosixFS :: Documentation for ownCloud (A Kiteworks Company) It requires inotify or GPFS at this time. And should be available in 7.0 released earlier this week.

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Do you have a rough timeframe how long it will take for this feature to become fully supported and production ready? Or is this something that has not timeframe and low priority, because OCIS is not catering to the homelab crowd?

I am a fellow Nextcloud user that wants to switch :blush:

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I found a Solution.
I followed this Guide and voila, i have natural saving files:
doc.owncloud .com/ocis/next/deployment/storage/posixfs.html

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