Actually, I'm confused now. I used to think that Swift does HTTP deletes by synchronously truncating the object file and renaming it with a .ts extension. But the currently code simply creates a new file with the request timestamp and .ts extension.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Shrinand Javadekar <shrin...@maginatics.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about how object deletes are handled with md5 > collisions. I looked at the code and here's my understanding of how > things will work. > > If I have two objects that have the same md5 hash, they will go to the > same hash directory. Say, they go to > /srv/node/r1/object/1024/eef/deadbeef/t1.data and > /srv/node/r1/object/1024/eef/deadbeef/t2.data. > > Now, if I delete object t1, Swift will created a new file called t3.ts > and put it in the hash directory. > /srv/node/r1/object/1024/eef/deadbeef/t3.ts. > > When the replicator runs, it will delete all files with timestamp less > than t3. So will it delete both t1 and t2? > > Thanks in advance. > -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
