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Increase replication from 2 to 3 in a swift cluster without loosing existing data?

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From: Mark Hesel <markhesel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:20:34 +0100

Hi,

It is possible to increase the replication from 2 copys to the default
3 copys without loosing data?

Can I simply recreate the ringfile with a replication of 3 and sync
the ring files to my nodes?

Will Swift recognize the existing data?

best regards

Mark Hesel