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Sysmeta included with an object PUT persists with the PUT data - if an internal operation such as POST-as-copy during partial failure, or ssync with fast-POST (not supported), causes that data to be lost then the associated sysmeta will also be lost. Since object sys-meta persistence in the face of a POST when the original .data is unavailable requires fast-POST with .meta files the probetest that validates object sys-meta persistence of a POST when the most up-to-date copy of the object with sys-meta is unavailable configures an InternalClient with object_post_as_copy = false. This non-default configuration option is not supported by ssync and results in a loss of sys-meta very similar to the object sys-meta failure you would see with object_post_as_copy = true when the COPY part of the POST is unable to retrieve the most recently written object with sys-meta. Until we can fix the default POST behavior to make metadata updates without stomping on newer data file timestamps we should expect object sys-meta to be "very very best possible but not really guaranteed effort". Until we can fix ssync to replicate metadata updates without stomping on newer data file timestamps we should expect this test to fail. When ssync replication of fast-POST metadata update is fixed this test will fail signaling that the expected failure cruft should be removed, but other parts of ssync replication will still work and some other bugs can be fixed while we wait. Change-Id: Ifc5d49514de79b78f7715408e0fe0908357771d3 |
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Swift
A distributed object storage system designed to scale from a single machine to thousands of servers. Swift is optimized for multi-tenancy and high concurrency. Swift is ideal for backups, web and mobile content, and any other unstructured data that can grow without bound.
Swift provides a simple, REST-based API fully documented at http://docs.openstack.org/.
Swift was originally developed as the basis for Rackspace's Cloud Files and was open-sourced in 2010 as part of the OpenStack project. It has since grown to include contributions from many companies and has spawned a thriving ecosystem of 3rd party tools. Swift's contributors are listed in the AUTHORS file.
Docs
To build documentation install sphinx (pip install sphinx), run
python setup.py build_sphinx, and then browse to /doc/build/html/index.html.
These docs are auto-generated after every commit and available online at
http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/.
For Developers
The best place to get started is the "SAIO - Swift All In One". This document will walk you through setting up a development cluster of Swift in a VM. The SAIO environment is ideal for running small-scale tests against swift and trying out new features and bug fixes.
You can run unit tests with .unittests and functional tests with
.functests.
Code Organization
- bin/: Executable scripts that are the processes run by the deployer
- doc/: Documentation
- etc/: Sample config files
- swift/: Core code
- account/: account server
- common/: code shared by different modules
- middleware/: "standard", officially-supported middleware
- ring/: code implementing Swift's ring
- container/: container server
- obj/: object server
- proxy/: proxy server
- test/: Unit and functional tests
Data Flow
Swift is a WSGI application and uses eventlet's WSGI server. After the
processes are running, the entry point for new requests is the Application
class in swift/proxy/server.py. From there, a controller is chosen, and the
request is processed. The proxy may choose to forward the request to a back-
end server. For example, the entry point for requests to the object server is
the ObjectController class in swift/obj/server.py.
For Deployers
Deployer docs are also available at http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/. A good starting point is at http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/deployment_guide.html
You can run functional tests against a swift cluster with .functests. These
functional tests require /etc/swift/test.conf to run. A sample config file
can be found in this source tree in test/sample.conf.
For Client Apps
For client applications, official Python language bindings are provided at http://github.com/openstack/python-swiftclient.
Complete API documentation at http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/
For more information come hang out in #openstack-swift on freenode.
Thanks,
The Swift Development Team