On Jul 30, 2014, at 10:57 AM, Samuel Merritt <s...@swiftstack.com> wrote:
> On 7/30/14, 10:18 AM, Shrinand Javadekar wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Swift v1 allowed for geo replication using read and write affinity >> rules. Now, Swift v2 allows setting storage policies (which can affect >> replication) per container. I wanted to know if/how these two >> intersect. Some of the following are straight-forward questions, just >> wanted to get a confirmation. >> >> 1. If I have Swift v2.0 installation, can I enable geo replication >> without having a separate storage policy? > > Yes. > >> 2. How does a user enable both geo replication and have storage policies? > > Enable geo-replication with the read_affinity and write_affinity settings as > usual, then define some storage policies. > >> 3. Are there plans of consolidating geo replication and storage policies? > > No; they're orthogonal. But geo-clusters and storage policies go very well together, since polices allows you to have some data geographically distributed and other data in specific different locations. --John
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