[Openstack] Swift supported file system

Khaled Ben Bahri khaled-bbk at hotmail.com
Mon Jan 23 14:04:38 UTC 2012


Thanks a lot

and for using a shared folder mounted on nfs as the storage backend for swift? is it possible??

best regards
Khaled

> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Swift supported file system
> From: me at not.mn
> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:47:44 -0600
> CC: florian.hines at gmail.com; openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> To: khaled-bbk at hotmail.com
> 
> That functionality is left up to a client. For example, you could use FUSE to spoof swift as a filesystem or you could use a client like Cyberduck or even write your own. Last week someone on this mailing list talked about adding webDAV support to swift.
> 
> All of these "work" in that they present swift to the user as a filesystem. However, swift doesn't follow POSIX semantics and therefore any attempt to force swift into such a model will have drawbacks (mostly with regards to performance).
> 
> --John
> 
> 
> On Jan 23, 2012, at 4:47 AM, Khaled Ben Bahri wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for your answer,
> > 
> > For the first question I meant, tha i wish to mount a shared forlder that uses swift for storage
> > 
> > Best Regards
> > Khaled
> > 
> > Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:59:56 -0600
> > From: florian.hines at gmail.com
> > To: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Swift supported file system
> > 
> > On Friday, January 20, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Khaled Ben Bahri wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Can any one please tell me if we can mount and use for openstack swift a mounted shared folder as a storage device
> > 
> > Do you mean use shared storage as the storage backend for swift?  Or do you wish to mount a shared folder that uses swift for storage (ala dropbox/jungledisk/fuse) ?
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > Is it necessary that storage devices have to be mounted on /srv/node??
> > 
> > You can change where you mount devices with the "devices" config option in the default section of your config.
> > 
> > --
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