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This patch makes a number of changes to enable content-type metadata to be updated when using the fast-POST mode of operation, as proposed in the associated spec [1]. * the object server and diskfile are modified to allow content-type to be updated by a POST and the updated value to be stored in .meta files. * the object server accepts PUTs and DELETEs with older timestamps than existing .meta files. This is to be consistent with replication that will leave a later .meta file in place when replicating a .data file. * the diskfile interface is modified to provide accessor methods for the content-type and its timestamp. * the naming of .meta files is modified to encode two timestamps when the .meta file contains a content-type value that was set prior to the latest metadata update; this enables consistency to be achieved when rsync is used for replication. * ssync is modified to sync meta files when content-type differs between local and remote copies of objects. * the object server issues container updates when handling POST requests, notifying the container server of the current immutable metadata (etag, size, hash, swift_bytes), content-type with their respective timestamps, and the mutable metadata timestamp. * the container server maintains the most recently reported values for immutable metadata, content-type and mutable metadata, each with their respective timestamps, in a single db row. * new probe tests verify that replication achieves eventual consistency of containers and objects after discrete updates to content-type and mutable metadata, and that container-sync sync's objects after fast-post updates. [1] spec change-id: I60688efc3df692d3a39557114dca8c5490f7837e Change-Id: Ia597cd460bb5fd40aa92e886e3e18a7542603d01 |
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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