On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Martin Albisetti < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Sidnei da Silva > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On our initial implementation of the click packages file storage, we're > > going to be using Swift for the storage backend. The simplest form of the > > API, which we're currently using, has a maximum limit of 5Gb per request. > > > > The question is: will 5Gb be enough, or should we start planning for > larger > > objects, by using the Large Object API [1] instead. > > > > [1] > > > http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/large-object-creation.html > > > 5Gb should be enough for now, absolutely. > > If in the future we decide we need larger file support, what does the > migration path work look like? > >From what I can tell, it should be straightforward. We'd upload in multiple parts, create a manifest and just store the id of the manifest instead of the id of what was previously a single upload. When fetching from the manifest the pieces are pierced together, so the download part doesn't change. -- Sidnei Make the most of Ubuntu with Ubuntu One http://one.ubuntu.com
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