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[Chuck Thier <cthier@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alex,

Swift is designed to be used for generic blob storage with a RESTful API.
It is not designed to do block storage and thusly doesn't provide a file
system like interface.  Swift is implemented on top of local file
systems (like XFS) and the objects, and metadata are distributed equally
across the cluster.  This design does not require a CFS to be used for the
storage of files.

Feel free to let me know if you have any further questions.

--
Chuck

2010/8/31 woorung <woorung@xxxxxxxxx>

>  Swift seems like providing virtual block pool similar to ZFS.
>
> So it may be able to be worked on any existing filesystems such as ext3 and
> XFS.
>
> I think that it is not a kind of CFS(Cluster File System), so the
> filesystem with Swift is just local filesystem.
>
> The local filesystem won’t share any blocks(or objects) with any
> filesystems made by other users as far as Swift does not use CFS like GFS or
> GlusterFS.
>
> In the low level of block or object, Swift will be good to provide
> availability, replication, and something like that across racks in
> datacenter.
>
> But in the high level such as filesystem, I think that CFS-like filesystem
> is needed to leverage Swift’s advantages.
>
> Is there any idea?
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> Alex Woohyun Kim
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> The creator of open source "Coord" for cloud computing
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