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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">We have around 3.8tb but we're wanting to move from gluster to swift (which we're currently using <span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;">2.6tb). We're a small not-for-profit in the UK. We don't have the funds to support replicating data right now.</span></div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, 23 September 2022, 21:04:32 BST, Alvaro Soto <alsotoes@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv3399576870"><div><div>If I'm no mistaken, that will stop replication for new objects but also stop checking for old objects consistency (maybe l, just maybe you will loose information if you disk or network disruption) I consider this a quick and dirty fix in the mean time you get more disk space without stop serving write IO, better option to preserve old objects consistency will be maybe to put your cluster in read-only but from the ACL, not from the Linux boxes.<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Can I ask what is the current space statuses on your cluster drives?<br clear="none"><div id="yiv3399576870yqt55205" class="yiv3399576870yqt5910200408"><div><br clear="none"><div>---<br clear="none">Alvaro Soto.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Note: My work hours may not be your work hours. Please do not feel the need to respond during a time that is not convenient for you.<br clear="none">----------------------------------------------------------<br clear="none">Great people talk about ideas,<br clear="none">ordinary people talk about things,<br clear="none">small people talk... about other people.</div></div></div></div></div><br clear="none"><div id="yiv3399576870yqt92221" class="yiv3399576870yqt5910200408"><div class="yiv3399576870gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="yiv3399576870gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 2:26 PM Paladox <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:thomasmulhall410@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:thomasmulhall410@yahoo.com">thomasmulhall410@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;" class="yiv3399576870gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div></div>
<div dir="ltr">We're just setting it up so i can erase everything. Ah so if i stoped the object replicator service, that'll be fine?</div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Friday, 23 September 2022, 19:30:28 BST, Alvaro Soto <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:alsotoes@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:alsotoes@gmail.com">alsotoes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv3399576870m_16383688301621082yiv4379191274"><div><div dir="ltr">question:<div>Do you want to delete replicas of old objects? o just disable it for future objects until you get more disk/nodes?</div><div>for the second did you try to stop the object replicator service? </div></div><br clear="none"><div id="yiv3399576870m_16383688301621082yiv4379191274yqt83419"><div><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 9:04 AM Paladox <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:thomasmulhall410@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:thomasmulhall410@yahoo.com">thomasmulhall410@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div></div>
<div>Thanks! But that doesn’t tell you how to disable as the value must be one or higher? Unless it’s not 1+1 (or what ever you set as the replica value).</div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Thursday, 22 September 2022 at 19:58:41 BST, Alvaro Soto <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:alsotoes@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:alsotoes@gmail.com">alsotoes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv3399576870m_16383688301621082yiv4379191274m_7689913864798588201ydp6d54da48yiv6884612442"><div><div>Check changing the replica counts <div><br clear="none"></div><div><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://docs.openstack.org/swift/xena/admin/objectstorage-ringbuilder.html#replica-counts">https://docs.openstack.org/swift/xena/admin/objectstorage-ringbuilder.html#replica-counts</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div id="yiv3399576870m_16383688301621082yiv4379191274m_7689913864798588201ydp6d54da48yiv6884612442yqt73949"><div>---<br clear="none">Alvaro Soto.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Note: My work hours may not be your work hours. Please do not feel the need to respond during a time that is not convenient for you.<br clear="none">----------------------------------------------------------<br clear="none">Great people talk about ideas,<br clear="none">ordinary people talk about things,<br clear="none">small people talk... about other people.</div></div></div></div><br clear="none"><div id="yiv3399576870m_16383688301621082yiv4379191274m_7689913864798588201ydp6d54da48yiv6884612442yqt04310"><div><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 6:54 AM Paladox <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:thomasmulhall410@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:thomasmulhall410@yahoo.com">thomasmulhall410@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div>Hello, I would like Swift to only have 1 file not any copies of it, how do I disable replication as you must set the value to 1 when you create the rings?</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>(We don’t have the disk space to have replication / copies of the files)</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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