From 63a0e5c4f6b1b3384a8178ac6414712094736bc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Slavi Pantaleev Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 17:58:47 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Add warnings to synapse-s3-storage-provider support feature --- CHANGELOG.md | 2 ++ docs/configuring-playbook-synapse-s3-storage-provider.md | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index e99cd360..3ee9afac 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ ## synapse-s3-storage-provider support +**`synapse-s3-storage-provider` support is very new and still relatively untested. Using it may cause data loss.** + You can now store your Synapse media repository files on Amazon S3 (or another S3-compatible object store) using [synapse-s3-storage-provider](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse-s3-storage-provider) - a media provider for Synapse (Python module), which should work faster and more reliably than our previous [Goofys](docs/configuring-playbook-s3-goofys.md) implementation (Goofys will continue to work). This is not just for initial installations. Users with existing files (stored in the local filesystem) can also migrate their files to `synapse-s3-storage-provider`. diff --git a/docs/configuring-playbook-synapse-s3-storage-provider.md b/docs/configuring-playbook-synapse-s3-storage-provider.md index bc0250f1..3490705a 100644 --- a/docs/configuring-playbook-synapse-s3-storage-provider.md +++ b/docs/configuring-playbook-synapse-s3-storage-provider.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ If you'd like to store Synapse's content repository (`media_store`) files on Amazon S3 (or other S3-compatible service), you can use the [synapse-s3-storage-provider](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse-s3-storage-provider) media provider module for Synapse. +**`synapse-s3-storage-provider` support is very new and still relatively untested. Using it may cause data loss.** + An alternative (which has worse performance) is to use [Goofys to mount the S3 store to the local filesystem](configuring-playbook-s3-goofys.md).