Re: [Openstack] [swift] Operational knowledge sharing

2012-08-13 Thread Greg Holt
On Aug 13, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Caitlin Bestler 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 S

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 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] Conflicting st binary name

2011-06-10 Thread Greg Holt
On Jun 10, 2011, at 1:50 AM, Thomas Goirand 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? I know that a window manager has > nothing to do with us, but there mig

Re: [Openstack] swauth_novaldap released

2011-06-03 Thread Greg Holt
Very, very cool! Just curious, what's the reason for the account, user -> user, account switch in swift3.py? On Jun 3, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Akira YOSHIYAMA wrote: > Hi Stackers, > > I'm pleased to announce swauth_novaldap, an auth-n/z driver for Swift > to use Nova user/profile data in LDAP. > >

Re: [Openstack] Changes-Since

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Holt
On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:39 AM, Jorge Williams wrote: > > How do you guys feel about the changes-since feature? > And if it is in the core shouldn't we support it in all of our APIs (images, > load balancers, etc.)? I don't think it'd be a good idea for Swift. It would require an additional inde

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 backup/reco

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 wrote: >> select w from x where y

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Greg Holt
e: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Greg Holt 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 req

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
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] 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, redbo,

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 : >> 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 been