[Openstack] Understanding the Swift Ring, Ruby Edition

2013-02-06 Thread Sergio Rubio
Hey folks, I've posted an article related to the swift ring format, and how to read it from Ruby. It's a work in progress and, since I'm not a Swift expert by any means, it'll be full of inaccuracies probably. I hope it can be of use to someone else in the meantime. http://rubiojr.rbel.co/hack/2

[Openstack] [OpenStack][Swift] Cifrado 0.1 Swift CLI available

2013-03-03 Thread Sergio Rubio
Hey folks, I've released a new OpenStack Swift command line client: http://rubiojr.rbel.co/cifrado Somewhat experimental, but here's the feature list for the first release: * Uploading/downloading files and directories to/from OpenStack Swift. * Regular list/delete/stat commands to manipulate o

[Openstack] [OpenStack][Swift] Swift Storage nodes leave db.pending files after failed requests

2013-04-23 Thread Sergio Rubio
Howdy folks, While populating an empty Swift test cluster with swift-dispersion-populate some container creation requests failed, leaving 'db.pending' files. This is standard operation I think (http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/overview_architecture.html#updaters) however the pending file

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack][Swift] Swift Storage nodes leave db.pending files after failed requests

2013-04-25 Thread Sergio Rubio
For the sake of completion, the whole thing was a false alarm, has nothing to do with db.pending files and it has been documented here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1172358 On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Sergio Rubio wrote: > Howdy folks, > > While populating an empty S