[Openstack] Glance API semantics when image sizes aren't known

Ewan Mellor Ewan.Mellor at eu.citrix.com
Thu Nov 17 03:32:13 UTC 2011


> From: Vishvananda Ishaya [mailto:vishvananda at gmail.com] 
> > On Nov 15, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Ewan Mellor wrote:
> >
> > With the bug in the Swift backend fixed, I think it will work just fine
> > to stream through a glance client in this way.
>
> Only if the image is < 5 GB.  Otherwise swift will blow up trying to store it.

We should use manifest-style upload in the case where the image_size is unknown.  That way, we'd be able to upload the object no matter which size it turned out to be.

There's no downside to that, is there?

Ewan.




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