On Mar 10 2016, Cliff Stanford <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/03/16 00:39, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> On Mar 09 2016, Cliff Stanford <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Just one thing, I'm not sure it's sensible to push the metadata to >>> "infrequent access" as it is accessed rather frequently. Maybe just >>> the actual data? >> >> Would be a nice theoretically, but I think the benefits don't justify >> the added complexity. It's not as if the IA class is slower, it just has >> smaller availability guarantees. And finally, metadata is only accessed >> on mount, umount and every 24h. So depending on your usage pattern, this >> may be a lot less frequent than file contents. > > As I understand it, it's simply a different pricing model, > availability is the same.
Not according to https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/. Standard is 99.99%, IA is 99.9%. > IA costs 50% less to store and twice as > much to retrieve. > > One problem is that IA objects have a minimum storage duration of 30 > days. > Thus each of the metadata objects that is removed is charged at > 30 days. There is also a minimum storage size of 128kB. .. but all that is indeed true as well. > Not sure if you think any of this is worth worrying about? Well, as I said, that depends on how you use S3QL. Best, -Nikolaus -- GPG encrypted emails preferred. Key id: 0xD113FCAC3C4E599F Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "s3ql" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
