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Difference between revisions of "Swift for File Systems w/o Extended Attributes"

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Demo to be uploaded on Calsoft website

Revision as of 08:47, 26 August 2013

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.

Design

Alternative to extended attributes

Implementation

Code Changes

Demo Plan

Demo to be uploaded on Calsoft website