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[Greg Holt <gholt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:39 AM, Jorge Williams wrote:

> 
> How do you guys feel about the changes-since feature?
> And if it is in the core shouldn't we support it in all of our APIs (images, load balancers, etc.)?


I don't think it'd be a good idea for Swift. It would require an additional index using up storage space, i/o, and cpu as well making it that much harder for sharding in the future to scale to really huge containers.