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Currently, the rsync module where the replicators send data is static. It forbids administrators to set rsync configuration based on their current deployment or needs. As an example, the rsyncd configuration example encourages to set a connections limit for the modules account, container and object. It permits to protect devices from excessives parallels connections, because it would impact performances. On a server with many devices, it is tempting to increase this number proportionally, but nothing guarantees that the distribution of the connections will be balanced. In the worst scenario, a single device can receive all the connections, which is a severe impact on performances. This commit adds a new option named 'rsync_module' to the *-replicator sections of the *-server configuration file. This configuration variable can be extrapolated with device attributes like ip, port, device, zone, ... by using the format {NAME}. eg: rsync_module = {replication_ip}::object_{device} With this configuration, an administrators can solve the problem of connections distribution by creating one module per device in rsyncd configuration. The default values are backward compatible: {replication_ip}::account {replication_ip}::container {replication_ip}::object Option vm_test_mode is deprecated by this commit, but backward compatibility is maintained. The option is only effective when rsync_module is not set. In that case, {replication_port} is appended to the default value of rsync_module. Change-Id: Iad91df50dadbe96c921181797799b4444323ce2e |
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CHANGELOG | ||
CONTRIBUTING.md | ||
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README.md | ||
requirements.txt | ||
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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
.
If you would like to start contributing, check out these notes to help you get started.
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