I'm looking into moving up from Photos.app to Darktable. One of the nice features of Photos.app is that through iCloud I can run Photos.app on my MBP which doesn't have space for my whole library and it will automatically pull down and cache the parts of my library I'm using at the moment. Are there any sort of storage hooks in Darktable that would allow for building something like that with a homegrown photos server?
If the storage is recognized at the operating system level then Darktable should be fine with it. Because it maintains a database, Darktable doesn't need a constant connection. On the other hand, it won't mount a network drive all on its own since it doesn't expect to be running as root.
Or to put it another way, if there's a photo server on your network and the machine running Darktable knows about it, then it shouldn't be a problem.
