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On 15 Nov 2017, at 7:40, Jay Pipes wrote:

> On 11/15/2017 06:28 AM, Duncan Thomas wrote:
>> On 15 November 2017 at 11:15, Matt Keenan <matt.keenan at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> On 13/11/17 22:51, Nikhil Komawar wrote:
>>>
>>> I think it will a rather hard problem to solve. As swift store can be
>>> configured to store objects in different configurations. I guess the next
>>> question would be, what is your underlying problem -- multiple build
>>> requests or is this for retry for a single download?
>>>
>>> If the image is in image cache and you are hitting the glance node with
>>> cached image (which is quite possible for tiny deployments), this feature
>>> will be relatively easier.
>>>
>>>
>>> So the specific image stored in glance is a Unified Archive
>>> (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E38524/gmrlo.html).
>>>
>>> During a UAR deployment the archive UUID is required and it is contained in
>>> the first 33 characters of the UAR image, thus a range request for this
>>> portion is required when initiating the deployment. Then the rest of the
>>> archive is extracted and deployed.
>>
>> Given the range you want is always at the beginning, is a range
>> request any different to doing a full get request and dripping the
>> connection when you've got the bytes you want?
>
> Or just store the UAR UUID in the image metadata...
>
> -jay

Swift supports range requests (and multiple ranges at the same time)

eg: "Range: bytes=1-34, 100-1024"


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