On 28/03/12 02:07, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Swift (running in labs) is now available to all labs projects to use for > integration testing with mediawiki. It is only available from within > labs; it does not have a public IP address. > > Swift in labs treats upload.wikimedia.org <http://upload.wikimedia.org> > as its back end, so if you request an image that doesn't exist in swift > (but does exist in upload), it will use the 404 handler and fetch the > real data. Because of this it will appear to have all the data you > need, though will respond slowly at first. > > I have only created the commons container, so right now it will only > fetch images that exist in commons. It will return 401 or 500 for all > other wikis. If there is a short list of wikis for which you would like > it to work, let me know and I will create them for you. Alternately, > you can join the 'swift' project and follow the documentation > <http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Swift/Setup_New_Swift_Cluster> and > make them yourself! :)
Great! What will happen when someone decides to iterate all commons files from labs? Will swift-labs begin discarding non-owned files in some LRU kind? Or will it stubbornly try to keep all of them until it fills its disks and is no longer able to operate? _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
