Yes - that is the main point of this PR.  There are courses with huge
static resource collections, which take too long to import.  And the gridfs
contentstore doest allow hierarchial storage.

This PR is already operating in production at MIT.
On Aug 19, 2013 9:22 AM, "chrisndodge" <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In cms/djangoapps/contentstore/management/commands/import.py:
>
> >          import_from_xml(modulestore('direct'), data_dir, course_dirs, load_error_modules=False,
> > -                        static_content_store=contentstore(), verbose=True)
> > +                        static_content_store=contentstore(), verbose=True, do_import_static=do_import_static)
>
> Is your plan to *not* use Mongo (via GridFS) for your static resources
> but serve those off filesystem?
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