Re: [Openstack] Failure and Membership detection in Swift

2015-01-30 Thread John Dickinson
To give you some more specific answers to your questions... Nodes are "discovered" by being added to the ring. Simply put, this means an operator or external (to swift) management system is responsible for adding the device into. It is not automatically done inside of Swift (note that it could

Re: [Openstack] Failure and Membership detection in Swift

2015-01-30 Thread John Dickinson
There's a ton of info available at https://swiftstack.com/openstack-swift/. Specifically, take a look at https://swiftstack.com/openstack-swift/architecture/ for how Swift solves some of these issues. You might also find the info at http://swift.openstack.org useful, especially http://docs.ope

[Openstack] Failure and Membership detection in Swift

2015-01-30 Thread Behrooz Shafiee
Hello All, Unfortunately, I could not find any academic paper which describes Swift in academic terms, most of documents are user manual and general overview. I need to know some details about Swift which I could not find in the public documents. 1) How does membership detection works in Swift (d