I am using Rackspace Cloudfiles-US. I don't have access to the actual storage servers to find out if the expirer is running.
But given that it is a publicly available object store, I would hope so :-). -Shri On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Morten Møller Riis <m...@gigahost.dk> wrote: > Is the swift-object-expirer daemon running? > > Mvh / Best regards > Morten Møller Riis > Gigahost ApS > m...@gigahost.dk > > > > > On Oct 10, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Shrinand Javadekar <shrin...@maginatics.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > Objects in a swift container can be deleted by either explicitly deleting > them or by setting a expiry timestamp on them. Is there a performance > difference between the two? For example, when I want to delete an object, > instead of deleting it, can I simply set the X-Delete-After attribute of > that object to 0? Is one faster than the other? > > My guess is that setting the object expiry timestamp may be faster since > that would only involve changing the xattrs of the object inode. Delete > will require creation of a new version of the object, truncating it to a 0 > byte file and renaming it to change the extension to ".ts". Seems like less > work is done when object expiration is set. > > To try this out, I tried setting the X-Delete-After attribute using the > swift command line client: > > $ swift post -m X-Delete-After: 1 <container-name> <object-name> > > After I did this, when I stat the object, I see the attribute "Meta > X-Delete-After: 1". However, the object never got deleted. Any idea what > I'm doing wrong? > > -Shri > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > > >
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