Hi, Am 04.04.14 11:14, schrieb Shyam Prasad N: > I have a question regarding the ring building process in a swift cluster. > Many sources online suggest building the rings using ring-builder and > scp the generated ring files to all the nodes in the cluster. > What I'm trying to understand is if the scp step is just to simplify > things, or is it absolutely necessary that the ring files on all the > nodes is exactly the same? > Can I instead individually build the rings on each node individually?
no, the ring files must be the same on all nodes. Ring files in combination with the full object name define which storage nodes are responsible for the object. A very simplified example with four storage servers A, B, C, D and only two replicas: 1. The proxy server wants to store an object and based on its ring file decides that storage server "A" and "B" should store it. 2. The storage nodes "A" and "B" use different ringfiles; their replicators now assume that the object is misplaced and will replicate the object to nodes "C" and "D". 3. Now the proxy wants to get the object sometime later, and because of the different ring expects the object on server "A" and "B". But the object is no longer stored on these servers and the request will fail. Christian _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
