2014cdb906
Preventing access to expired objects
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Re-enabled accepting X-Delete-At and X-Delete-After headers. During a GET on
an expired object, DiskFileExpired is raised by DiskFile class. This will
result in object-server returning HTTPNotFound (404) to the client.
Tracking objects to be deleted
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Objects to be deleted are tracked using "tracker objects". These are PUT into
a special account(a volume, for now). These zero size "tracker objects" have
names that contain:
* Expiration timestamp
* Path of the actual object to be deleted
Deleting actual objects from GlusterFS volume
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The object-expirer daemon runs a pass once every X seconds. For every pass it
makes, it queries the special account for "tracker objects". Based on
(timestamp, path) present in name of "tracker objects", object-expirer then
deletes the actual object and the corresponding tracker object.
To run object-expirer forever:
swift-init object-expirer start
To run just once:
swift-object-expirer -o -v /etc/swift/object-expirer.conf
Caveat/Limitation: Object-expirer needs a separate account(volume) that
is not used by other services like gswauth. By default, this volume is
named "gsexpiring" and is configurable.
More info about object expiration:
http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/overview_expiring_objects.html
Change-Id: I876995bf4f16ef4bfdff901561e0558ecf1dc38f
Signed-off-by: Prashanth Pai <ppai@redhat.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/6891
Tested-by: Chetan Risbud <crisbud@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: pushpesh sharma <psharma@redhat.com>
Tested-by: pushpesh sharma <psharma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chetan Risbud <crisbud@redhat.com>
Gluster For Swift
Integrating GlusterFS as the back-end to OpenStack Swift implementation. This is a component of the Unified File and Object (UFO) story for GlusterFS, which allows files and directories created via gluster-native/nfs/samba mount(s) to be accessed as objects via the Swift API.