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Revision as of 08:46, 26 August 2013
Contents
Summary
Today swift assumes that file system underneath supports extended attributes. This restricts use of file systems w/o extended attributes with Swift.
Release Date
Post Havana
Rationale
More the flexibility given to user, the better it would be adoption of Openstack swift. If we can conquer limitations of file systems w/o extended attributes it would be more flexible for end use to choose and select file system.
User Stories
User wants to deploy Openstack swift on EXT2 file system.
