Ale, Guess that what http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/09/16/globally-distributed-openstack-swift-cluster/ link latency feature is meant to be ... but John can confirm that :)
Best Lean On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Alejandro Comisario < [email protected]> wrote: > John, what i think would be terrific ( i hope is not implemented, if not > im gonna feel a dunce ) if, for latency matters, suppose you have 4 zones, > 2 on each datacenter, and on each datacenter, you have 2 proxies for > example. > > De idea would be that there were some kind of mechanism to tell the ring, > what nodes are under what proxies, to give some kind of prefferece > regarding latency, and for example not having a proxy on DC1 to cross the > country to get an object from a datanode in DC2. > > Have you thought anything like it? > If not, im wondering how, for example rackspace handles this kind of > issues ( ignoring all the CDN thing ) > > Cheers. > > *---------------* > *Alejandrito* > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:55 PM, John Dickinson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This is already supported in Swift with the concept of availability >> zones. Swift will place each replica in different availability zones, if >> possible. If you only have one zone, Swift will place the replicas on >> different machines. If you only have one machine, Swift will place the >> replicas on different drives. >> >> There are active discussions right now about how Swift can support a tier >> above these availability zones: "regions". A region would be defined by a >> hogher latency link and can provide additional data durability, and, >> depending on your deployment details, better availability. >> http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/09/16/globally-distributed-openstack-swift-cluster/has >> more info on the ideas we're talking about. >> >> --John >> >> >> >> >> On Nov 1, 2012, at 8:45 AM, Leandro Reox <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hi guys, >> > >> > Any plans to implement something like hadoop rack-awareness where we >> can define "rack" spaces to guarantee that a copy of an object is stored >> for example on another datacenter, on another coast. Or should this be >> managed by container sync to the other datacenter >> > >> > I think that this can be a nice-to-have feature, i dont know if its on >> the dev roadmap >> > >> > Best >> > Lean >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> > Post to : [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >
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