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Thanks for your reply. The reason we are looking into swift3 is we 
already integrated Gluster with openstack-swift which is providing obj 
store

(https://github.com/gluster/gluster-swift ). integration with RGW can be 
long-term solution, but for short term we would like to have ACL's support.

-Venkat

On 06/10/2017 01:23 AM, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 10:37:15 +0530
> Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>>> we are looking for S3 plugin with ACLS so that we can integrate gluster
>>>> with that.
>>> Did you look into porting Ceph RGW on top of Gluster?
>> This is one of the longer term options that we have under consideration.
>> I am very interested in your reasons to suggest it, care to elaborate a
>> little?
> RGW seems like the least worst starting point in terms of the end
> result you're likely to get.
>
> The swift3 does a good job for us in OpenStack Swift, providing a degree
> of compatibility with S3. When Kota et.al. took over from Tomo, they revived
> the development successfully. However, it remains fundamentally limited in
> what it does, and its main function is to massage S3 to fit it on top
> of Swift. If you place it in front of Gluster, you're saddled with
> this fundamental incompatibility, unless you fork swift3 and rework it
> beyond recognition.
>
> In addition, surely you realize that swift3 is only a shim and you need
> to have an object store to back it. Do you even have one in Gluster?
>
> Fedora used to ship a self-contained S3 store "tabled", so unlike swift3
> it's complete. It's written in C, so may be better compatible with Gluster's
> development environment. However, it was out of development for years and
> it only supports canned ACL. You aren't getting the full ACLs with it that
> you're after.
>
> The RGW gives you all that. It's well-compatible with S3, because it is
> its native API (with Swift API being grafted on). Yehuda and crea maintain
> a good compatibility. Yes, it's in C++, but the dialect is reasonable,
> The worst downside is, yes, it's wedded to Ceph's RADOS and you need
> a major surgery to place it on top of Gluster. Nonetheless, it seems like
> a better defined task to me than trying to maintain your own webserver,
> which you must do if you select swift3.
>
> There are still some parts of RGW which will give you trouble. In particular,
> it uses loadable classes, which run in the context of Ceph OSD. There's no
> place in Gluster to run them. You may have to drag parts of OSD into the
> project. But I didn't look closely enough to determine the feasibility.
>
> In your shoes, I'd talk to Yehuda about this. He knows the problem domain
> exceptionally and will give you a good advice, even though you're a
> competitor in Open Source in general. Kinda like I do now :-)
>
> Cheers,
> -- Pete