On 10/03/16 00:03, Peter Brouwer wrote:


Indeed, I should have been a bit more clear with my question.
What is swifts behavior of a situation in which  a disk where a swift
partition points to runs out of space? There can be a number of swift
partitions that point to the same disk, does each partition gets a
certain capacity of the disk allocated?

Hmm, I'm confused by the phrase 'partitions that point to the same disk':

- account, container, object rings can get set to use the same *device* (typically an entire disk e.g /dev/sdc). While you could use partitions e.g if you are sourcing storage from a SAN...this is not the usual scenario. - they all 'compete' for the storage, however it is usually the objects that eat the most of it (you can put the accounts and containers on their own real disks to avoid this...I think the docs suggest this as as a good practice).


What happens when you run out of disk is that (eventually) you cannot add any more objects or containers. Swift is pretty resilient and can cope with *some* devices being full but eventually nothing can be done and you need to add more storage nodes and amend ring configuration (preferably *before* getting into the situation I described)!

regards

Mark


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