[rhos-list] Fwd: Re: Redhat OpenStack Swift

[David Hernandez]

Thanks for the documentation.  With Perry Myers' help getting my 
subscriptions reset and the Folsom preview documentation I was able to 
finally get Swift installed and running on my RHEL6.3 server. 

I configured my Swift storage using the loopback device described in the 
Folsom Swift install document.  I would now like to replace the loopback 
device with a filesystem supplied by IBM's HPSS storage system. This 
filesystem is called VFS and is POSIX compliant and supports extended 
attributes. This filesystem is one namespace that will have 6 different 
mount points, each pointing to a different directory in the namespace for 
each of the six filesystems that the loopback device is currently 
providing.  The only constraint with the filesystem is that it only 
supports ASCII data.  Does this sound feasible and if so, what do I need 
to do in order to make the change?  Here is how I plan to proceed:

Delete any objects and containers currently on the devices.
Stop the Swift services (if necessary.)
Unmount the loopback devices.
Mount the VFS filesytem using the /srv/node/zXdX as mount points 
Restart the Swift services (if necessary.)

Regards.
David Hernandez

Contractor / HPSS
IBM Global Business Services - US Federal
12301 Kurland Dr Suite 300
Houston, TX 77034-4812 
Mobile 713-444-5755



From:   Derek Higgins <derekh at redhat.com>
To:     David Hernandez/Houston/Contr/IBM at IBMUS
Cc:     Perry Myers <pmyers at redhat.com>, Derek Higgins 
<dhiggins at redhat.com>, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com>, Anthony 
Liguori/Austin/IBM at IBMUS
Date:   10/19/2012 03:58 PM
Subject:        Re: Fwd: Re: [rhos-list] Redhat OpenStack Swift



On 10/19/2012 12:53 PM, Perry Myers wrote:
> 
> Derek, perhaps it would help here if you could provide David with a
> preview of the Swift documentation for RHOS Folsom that you've been
> working on.  If you can get him that, then he can just ignore the
> upstream documentation.

Hi David,
   attached is a preview version documentation explaining how to use our
packages to install swift. Unfortunately it has yet to be converted to a
more visually pleasing format.

   It should provide you with all that is needed for a swift all in one
using our packages.

   You are probably the first person to use it so if you notice any
problems in it let me know

   An alternative you may want to try is the installer[1], you can
follow the instructions in the README file, but only enable swift in
ans.txt, like below.

CONFIG_GLANCE_INSTALL=n
CONFIG_NOVA_INSTALL=n
CONFIG_DASHBOARD_INSTALL=n
CONFIG_SWIFT_INSTALL=y
CONFIG_CLIENT_INSTALL=y


thanks,
Derek.

https://github.com/derekhiggins/os-installer
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