Re: [Openstack] [swift] Operational knowledge sharing

2012-08-13 Thread Greg Holt
On Aug 13, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Caitlin Bestler caitlin.best...@nexenta.com wrote: I'm not sure it's worth the compatibility hassles, but why would periodic Progress returns that could be translated into a client status bar be useless? Sorry, poor choice of word I guess.

Re: [Openstack] [swift] Operational knowledge sharing

2012-08-10 Thread Greg Holt
Followup note: Though briefly mentioned by John, I like to emphasize this also affects COPY (or PUT with X-Copy-From) requests, and #1 (upping the lb timeout) is really the only solution unless we go crazy and implement async requests with status checks. Well, another weird solution is to have

Re: [Openstack] Conflicting st binary name

2011-06-11 Thread Greg Holt
On Jun 11, 2011, at 11:15 AM, David Nalley wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Thomas Goirand tho...@goirand.fr wrote: There's a bug report in the Debian BTS [1] against Nova in SID concerning the st binary shipped by Swift. Shall we consider renaming the binary st to something else?

Re: [Openstack] suggestion for data backup/recovery in swift

2011-05-31 Thread Greg Holt
On May 31, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Rostyslav Slipetskyy wrote: I assume that in this scenario there is only one user/file of huge size and all the other users/files are much smaller (in other case, there will be not much difference in distribution among drives). But the suggested

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Greg Holt
Also, using marker/limit rather than offset/limit makes it much easier to shard for scale if desired. One of the reasons we chose that route with Swift. Regular databases with indexes work better with marker/limit than offset/limit too. On May 25, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Justin Santa Barbara wrote:

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Greg Holt
Okay cool. Just stop using the term offset anywhere in your examples then and drop the whole page= thing as well. :) On May 25, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: I'm not proposing using marker/limit over offset/limit. I'm proposing using marker/limit/offset over searching manually through a

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Greg Holt
: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Greg Holt gh...@rackspace.com wrote: Okay cool. Just stop using the term offset anywhere in your examples then and drop the whole page= thing as well. :) Sorry, I'm not understanding what you're getting at here. The offset is required to pass to the database query

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Greg Holt
Okay, I give up then. Not sure what's different with what you have vs. Swift dbs. Just trying to offer up what we do and have been doing for a while now. On May 25, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Greg Holt gh...@rackspace.com wrote: select w from x where y

Re: [Openstack] Swift PPA's

2011-05-06 Thread Greg Holt
On May 6, 2011, at 5:06 AM, Soren Hansen wrote: 2011/5/5 Chuck Thier cth...@gmail.com: Hey Soren, We've asked similar questions before :) Ever since the packaging was pulled out of the source tree, we have been mostly out of the packaging loop. Since then most of the packaging details have

Re: [Openstack] Swift PPA's

2011-05-06 Thread Greg Holt
[Removed the previous stuff, it was getting messy. And sorry for this long email, I tried to make it shorter, really.] Okay, cool. Seems we all thought someone else was managing it so nobody really was. A few quick points and maybe we can get this all sorted out: * Most of us (me, chuck,