The idea to make ring implementation pluggable seems nice. At the same time I am thinking that many developers might not will feel comfortable with modifying existing ring structure, since it *works* :) Probably, the other viable option for allowing data location compliance is to implement it outside of ring file structure (but maybe inside the future Ring component/service).
As an example I look at how replication works, "If a replicator detects that a remote drive is has failed, it will use the ring's “get_more_nodes” interface to choose an alternate node to synchronize with." It seems that "Ring#get_more_nodes" can be used in a similar manner to select alternative nodes in other zones for storing objects once some of the zones are banned for specific accounts. - Rostik ________________________________ From:Joshua McKenty <j...@piston.cc> To:Rostyslav Slipetskyy <rslipets...@yahoo.com> Cc:OpenStack <openstack@lists.launchpad.net> Sent:Tue, May 31, 2011 1:45:01 AM Subject:Re: [Openstack] suggestion for data location compliance in swift This was one of the use cases that drove the design discussion on decoupling the swift ring implementation from the rest of swift (along with supporting multiple tiers of hardware). See https://blueprints.launchpad.net/swift/+spec/swift-pluggable-hashing-ring for the basic proposal, however, and you'll note that we could definitely use some additional developers :) Joshua Joshua McKenty Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. (650) 283-6846 jos...@piston.cc On 2011-05-30, at 4:18 PM, Rostyslav Slipetskyy wrote: Some of the data stored in the cloud has legal requirements to be stored >physically within certain geographical boundary (for example within a >country). >Currently OpenStack does not allow to impose restrictions on data location. > >It looks like zones can be very handy to achieve data location compliance >(according to the docs they can be used to group devices based on physical >location). For example, suppose that a provider has servers in USA (zones 1-5) >and Canada (zones 6-10). Let's imagine that a customer has some legal >requirements to store its data on the servers in the USA. What I imagine doing >is to restrict data for customer accounts to zones 1-5. > >Most probably, ring modifications will be necessary in order to implement this. > >Best Regards, >Rostik > >_______________________________________________ >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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