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[Martin Albisetti <martin.albisetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Sidnei da Silva
<sidnei.da.silva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On our initial implementation of the click packages file storage, we're
> going to be using Swift for the storage backend. The simplest form of the
> API, which we're currently using, has a maximum limit of 5Gb per request.
>
> The question is: will 5Gb be enough, or should we start planning for larger
> objects, by using the Large Object API [1] instead.
>
> [1]
> http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/large-object-creation.html


5Gb should be enough for now, absolutely.

If in the future we decide we need larger file support, what does the
migration path work look like?

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Martin