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# ADR 0011: Filesystem volume for uploads, DB-tracked quotas
- Status: accepted
- Date: 2026-07-04
## Context
Pages contain pasted/uploaded images; kickoff added non-image attachments
(PDF, office files, …) with a type allowlist and size limits. Self-hosting
must not require object storage. Quotas exist on three levels (instance
default → per user → per pond, most specific wins) per kickoff decision;
storage volume is one of the quota dimensions (kickoff assumption #1,
confirmed).
## Decision
- **Uploads live on a dedicated Docker volume**, laid out as
`uploads/<pondId>/<fileId>` (opaque ids; original filename and metadata in
the database). No S3 dependency; the storage access goes through a thin
`FileStorage` service so an S3 binding stays possible later.
- **Serving**: files are streamed by the API with permission checks (an
attachment inherits the permissions of its pond/page); no direct static
serving of user uploads. `Content-Disposition` and strict
`Content-Type` handling prevent inline execution (see `security.md`).
- **Validation on upload**: configurable MIME/extension allowlist (instance
setting; images always allowed), size limit per file, magic-byte sniffing
for images. SVG uploads are sanitized (script stripping) or rejected per
instance setting.
- **Quota dimensions** (each on the three-level override ladder):
- storage bytes per pond (default: 1 GiB),
- max file size (default: 25 MiB),
- editors per pond (default 5) and readers per pond (default 50) for
self-signup personal ponds,
- additional ponds a user may create (default 0).
Current usage is tracked in the database (`pond_usage`), updated
transactionally with upload/delete; quota exceedance yields a clear,
i18n-ed error.
- **Orphan cleanup**: deleting a page moves it to trash (ADR 0013); its
files are removed when the trash entry is purged. A nightly job reconciles
volume contents against the database and reports drift.
## Consequences
- Backup must cover the uploads volume in addition to `pg_dump` (ADR 0015).
- Multi-node scaling would need shared storage or the S3 binding — out of
scope at target size, but not blocked.
## Alternatives considered
- **Files as bytea in PostgreSQL**: single backup artifact, but bloats the
database, slows dumps/restores, and complicates streaming; rejected.
- **MinIO/S3 required**: another stateful service for every self-host;
rejected for v1, kept possible via the `FileStorage` interface.