General Information

Abstract

The storage-shares service provides storage backend functionality for user and group shares in OpenCloud. It implements the CS3 storage provider interface specifically for working with shared resources.

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Integration
• Virtual Shares Folder
• Storage Registry
• Scalability

Overview

This service is part of the storage services family and is responsible for:

• Providing a virtual view of received shares
• Handling access to resources shared by other users

Integration

The storage-shares service integrates with:

• sharing service - Manages and persists shares
• storage-users service - Accesses the underlying file content
• frontend service - Provides HTTP/WebDAV access to shares

Virtual Shares Folder

The service provides a virtual "Shares" folder for each user where all received shares are mounted. This allows users to access all files and folders that have been shared with them in a centralized location.

Storage Registry

The service is registered in the gateway's storage registry with:

• Provider ID: a0ca6a90-a365-4782-871e-d44447bbc668
• Mount point: /users/{{.CurrentUser.Id.OpaqueId}}/Shares
• Space types: virtual, grant, and mountpoint

See the gateway README for more details on storage registry configuration.

Scalability

The storage-shares service can be scaled horizontally.