Re: [openstack-dev] [Swift] container forwarding/cluster federation blueprint

2013-10-14 Thread Deliot, Eric
Hi, With a global cluster, you can have your replicas stored in different regions within your cluster whereas container forwarding is about storing all objects within a container in a different swift cluster than the one you contacted in the first place. These two clusters could well be co-loc

Re: [openstack-dev] [Swift] container forwarding/cluster federation blueprint

2013-10-13 Thread Sam Morrison
Hi, I'd be interested in the differences this has to using swift global clusters? Cheers, Sam On 12/10/2013, at 3:49 AM, "Coles, Alistair" wrote: > We’ve just committed a first set of patches to gerrit that address this > blueprint: > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/swift/+spec/cluster

[openstack-dev] [Swift] container forwarding/cluster federation blueprint

2013-10-11 Thread Coles, Alistair
We've just committed a first set of patches to gerrit that address this blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/swift/+spec/cluster-federation Quoting from that page: "The goal of this work is to enable account contents to be dispersed across multiple clusters, motivated by (a) accounts tha