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[Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 10:08 +0200, Loic Dachary wrote:
> > My impression is that the notifications system is intended to cover
> all
> > billable usage in at least Nova and Glance.
> It's also my understanding. Regarding swift, how would you suggest we
> approach the problem ? I see two possible courses:
> 
> a) directly create something similar to nova
> http://wiki.openstack.org/SystemUsageData for swift (i.e. a swift
> blueprint and coding in swift ) so that there is no need to install a
> metering agent for swift
> b) create a swift plugin for a metering agent and when it proves
> useful, port it to swift so that it is integrated and there is no
> longer a need for a metering agent plugin
> 
> What do you think ?

I've no informed opinion on Swift, but I assume Swift is amenable to
work which helps with metering its resources

Cheers,
Mark.