Re: [Openstack] swift -- object layout on storage

2013-01-05 Thread Lorin Hochstein
This is good info, I submitted a doc patch to capture this in the Swift admin guide: https://review.openstack.org/19046 Lorin On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:27 PM, John Dickinson m...@not.mn wrote: It's pretty simple. Swift uses the underlying filesystem to store the data on disk, and so you can

[Openstack] swift -- object layout on storage

2013-01-04 Thread Snider, Tim
I'd like to understand more on how Swift lays out objects on the underlaying storage. I can't seem to find out much about this in the openstack / swift documentation itself or in associated web searchs. Thanks for pointers / links. Tim ___ Mailing

Re: [Openstack] swift -- object layout on storage

2013-01-04 Thread John Dickinson
It's pretty simple. Swift uses the underlying filesystem to store the data on disk, and so you can use normal FS tools to find and inspect your data. For the object server, the magic happens here: https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/swift/obj/server.py#L117 The end result is that