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One use case for filesystem federation is for external datastreams – storing objects in the repository, but linking to large files on disk instead of ingesting them as datastream content. To do this, copy the file to the federated filesystem directory, then create the object in Fedora using the REST API linking to the federated filesystem content using the "Content-Type" header as follows (see: PUT):
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"Content-Type: message/external-body; access-type=URL; URL=\"http://localhost:8080/rest/federated/file\"" |
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