[openstack-dev] About Swift as an object storage gateway, like Cinder in block storage

Pete Zaitcev zaitcev at redhat.com
Fri Jul 11 15:14:30 UTC 2014


On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 11:05:40 +0800
"童燕群" <tyanqun at qq.com> wrote:

> The workflow of this middle-ware working with swift may be like this pic:

Since you're plugging this into a/c/o nodes, there's no difference
between this and Pluggable Back-ends. Note that PBE is already implemented
in case of object server, see class DiskFile. Account/Container remainder
is here:
 https://review.openstack.org/47713

Do you have a request from your operations to implement this, or it's
a nice-to-have excercise for you? If the former, what specific vendor
store you are targeting?

-- Pete

P.S. Note that Cinder includes a large management component, which Swift
lacks by itself. In Cinder you can add new back-ends through Cinder's API
and CLI. In Swift, you have to run swift-ring-builder and edit configs.
Your blueprint does not address this gap.



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