[Openstack-operators] Question Regarding Swift Distribution Statistics

Richard Raseley Richard at Raseley.com
Wed May 2 21:44:35 UTC 2012


Andrew,

Thank you very much for that information - it is very helpful.

Regards,

Richard

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Andrew Hale <Andrew.Hale at rackspace.co.uk>wrote:

>  You can use swift-get-nodes to see how a swift ring would distribute
> specific objects, this gives you the curl to query the appropriate service
> on each node directly to confirm whether they're actually there. A more
> useful tool might be the swift-dispersion-report and -populate tools which
> is designed to place objects across the cluster and report on the replica
> availability and cluster health from a cron or something.
>
>  http://swift.openstack.org/admin_guide.html#cluster-health
>
>  On 2 May 2012, at 21:48, Duncan McGreggor wrote:
>
>  cc'ing openstack list
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Richard Raseley <Richard at raseley.com>
> wrote:
>
> I am trying to figure out the best way to see view the distribution of a
>
> file or files across my test swift setup. I want to basically upload a file
>
> or files to containers and then be able to run a command or script that
> will
>
> tell me "See, these files *are* actually distributed over these particular
>
> zones / nodes."
>
>
>  Is there anything built into Swift like this? Thank you in advance for
> your
>
> answers.
>
>
>
>
>   Andrew Hale
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