Th short answer is that no you cannot specify a storage node for a given object. Data placement is done with the hash ring, so placement is based on the hash of the object name and the current state of the drives in the cluster. --John On 22 Feb 2016, at 4:06, pgh pgh wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm a beginner with openstack but I'm mainly interested in Swift... > I was wonder if in addition to use the Swift modified consistent hashing > ring, is possible to manually specify the storage node, if so, how does > Swift to maintain load balancing ? > > > *Thanks and best regards,* > > > *Pgh* > _______________________________________________ > 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 -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20160222/5f42b693/attachment.sig>