A few years ago, I gave this talk at LCA which covers a lot of these details.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sUvfGKhaMo&list=PLIr7I80Leee5NpoYTd9ffNvWq0pG18CN3&index=9

--John




On 27 Jun 2016, at 17:36, Mark Kirkwood wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of documenting failure modes (for ops documentation etc). 
> Now I think I understand the intent:
>
> - swift tries to ensure you always have the number of configured replicas
>
> In the case of missing or unmounted devices I'm seeing the expected behaviour 
> i.e:
>
> - new object creation results in the configured number of replicas (some 
> stored on handoff nodes)
> - existing objects replicated on handoff to produce the correct replica number
>
> In the case of a node (or a region) I'm *not* seeing analogous behaviour for 
> *existing* objects, i.e I am a replica down after shutting down on of my 
> nodes and waiting a while.
>
> I am testing using swift 2.7.on a small cluster of vms (4 nodes, 4 devices, 2 
> regions) - now it may be that my setup is just too trivial (or maybe I 
> haven't waited long enough for swift decide my storage node is really down). 
> Any thoughts? I'd like to understand precisely what is supposed to happen 
> when a node (and also an entire region) is unavailable.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
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