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Re: [Swift] Where do we go from here?

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From: Robert van Leeuwen <Robert.vanLeeuwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:56:00 +0000
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Thread-topic: [Openstack] [Swift] Where do we go from here?

> Swift has many exciting features coming in the 
> OpenStack Folsom Release this fall, 
> but where do we go from here? 
> What's next for Swift in grizzly?
Great ideas, especially the following two:

>  - Implement transparent container sharding
>  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/swift/+spec/container-sharding
Awesome, would really like this.

> - Support a single logical swift cluster with tiers of storage
>  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/swift/+spec/storage-tiers
Sounds also really nice, would like to see an option to tier based on file size.
(Small size go to SSD's nodes)

Cheers,
Robert van Leeuwen

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[Swift] Where do we go from here?
From: John Dickinson, 2012-08-14