Re: [openstack-dev] [swift] eventual consistency and lost updates

2014-06-27 Thread John Dickinson
Great questions. I'll answer inline. On Jun 27, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Eoghan Glynn wrote: > > Hi Swiftsters! > > A basic question about swift eventual- versus strong-consistency. > The context is potentially using swift as a store for metric data. > > Say datapoints {p1, p2, ..., p_i} are stored

[openstack-dev] [swift] eventual consistency and lost updates

2014-06-27 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Hi Swiftsters! A basic question about swift eventual- versus strong-consistency. The context is potentially using swift as a store for metric data. Say datapoints {p1, p2, ..., p_i} are stored in a swift object. Presumably these data are replicated across the object ring in an eventually consist