[openstack-dev] [Swift] Isilon support feedback

Pete Zaitcev zaitcev at redhat.com
Thu May 23 15:10:41 UTC 2013


On Wed, 22 May 2013 14:16:15 -0400
"Pecoraro, Alex" <Alex.Pecoraro at emc.com> wrote:

> I've taken the Swift code and hacked on it a bit to build a prototype
> that works with Isilon [...]

It would help a lot if you opened the source and not just described
what it does.

> So, for example, I had to modify the Swift proxy server so that it doesn't
> do things like simultaneously write to two nodes in the same Isilon cluster.

Yeah, I did that too, like this:
 https://github.com/zaitcev/swift-lfs
Or you could create a fake ring with 1 node, like Gluster does.

> Also, I had to modify the replicators so that they do not attempt to
> replicate between nodes in the Isilon cluster, etc, etc.

Why do you even start those?

-- Pete



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