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[Chuck Thier <cthier@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > I also worked on swift. Can you have a look? I'm not so sure what I did
> > is fully correct yet, because I didn't succeed in running everything
> > fully. It seems that swift doesn't like using device-mapper as
> > partitions, is that correct? Which leads me to reinstall my test server
> > from scratch, leaving some empty partitions for swift then. Or do you
> > think this could be fixed, somehow?
>
> I'll have to defer to the honourable Swift devs on this list on this.
>

 Swift *should* work on any device that has a supported file system (such as
XFS).  We use loopback devices often on our development machines.  What
specific problem are you running into?

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Chuck