Hi , Because objects and containers are not inside the account. Swift is not a hierarchical structure storage. It's a object storage with flat namespace for account/container/object. So it's impossible to do that. OpenStack Swift Characteristics<https://swiftstack.com/openstack-swift/architecture/> Developer Document<http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/overview_architecture.html> Hope it help Hugo Kuo 2014-04-09 14:24 GMT+08:00 Ashish Dobhal <dobhalashish772 at gmail.com>: > Hey , > I want to know why do we need to maintain multiple copies of account > container and objects.Why dont we simply maintain the multiple replicas of > the account and the containers and objects inside the accounts would be > replicated as well. > Please reply > Thanks a lot. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20140409/5d339f96/attachment.html>