
The os.path.exists call performs an lstat, but os.path.ismount already performs the same check. However, it performs a separate lstat() call to check for a symlink, which we remove as well, cutting the number performed in half. Sample program to be straced for comparison: from swift.common.constraints import check_mount import os os.write(1, "Starting\n") if check_mount("/", "tmp"): os.write(1, "Mounted\n") Here is the output of a check on a mounted file system (common case) using the new method: ---- strace new ---- write(1, "Starting\n", 9) = 9 lstat("/tmp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=8460, ...}) = 0 lstat("/tmp/..", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 write(1, "Mounted\n", 8) = 8 ---- strace old ---- write(1, "Starting\n", 9) = 9 stat("/tmp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=8460, ...}) = 0 lstat("/tmp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=8460, ...}) = 0 lstat("/tmp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=8460, ...}) = 0 lstat("/tmp/..", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 write(1, "Mounted\n", 8) = 8 Change-Id: I027c862a2b7d9ff99d7f61bd43ccc0825dba525c Signed-off-by: Peter Portante <peter.portante@redhat.com>
Swift
A distributed object storage system designed to scale from a single machine to thousands of servers. Swift is optimized for multi-tenancy and high concurrency. Swift is ideal for backups, web and mobile content, and any other unstructured data that can grow without bound.
Swift provides a simple, REST-based API fully documented at http://doc.openstack.org/.
Swift was originally developed as the basis for Rackspace's Cloud Files and was open-sourced in 2010 as part of the OpenStack project. It has since grown to include contributions from many companies and has spawned a thriving ecosystem of 3rd party tools. Swift's contributors are listed in the AUTHORS file.
Docs
To build documentation install sphinx (pip install sphinx
), run
python setup.py build_sphinx
, and then browse to /doc/build/html/index.html.
These docs are auto-generated after every commit and available online at
http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/.
For Developers
The best place to get started is the "SAIO - Swift All In One". This document will walk you through setting up a development cluster of Swift in a VM. The SAIO environment is ideal for running small-scale tests against swift and trying out new features and bug fixes.
You can run unit tests with .unittests
and functional tests with
.functests
.
Code Organization
- bin/: Executable scripts that are the processes run by the deployer
- doc/: Documentation
- etc/: Sample config files
- swift/: Core code
- account/: account server
- common/: code shared by different modules
- middleware/: "standard", officially-supported middleware
- ring/: code implementing Swift's ring
- container/: container server
- obj/: object server
- proxy/: proxy server
- test/: Unit and functional tests
Data Flow
Swift is a WSGI application and uses eventlet's WSGI server. After the
processes are running, the entry point for new requests is the Application
class in swift/proxy/server.py
. From there, a controller is chosen, and the
request is processed. The proxy may choose to forward the request to a back-
end server. For example, the entry point for requests to the object server is
the ObjectController
class in swift/obj/server.py
.
For Deployers
Deployer docs are also available at http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/. A good starting point is at http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/deployment_guide.html
You can run functional tests against a swift cluster with .functests
. These
functional tests require /etc/swift/test.conf
to run. A sample config file
can be found in this source tree in test/sample.conf
.
For Client Apps
For client applications, official Python language bindings are provided at http://github.com/openstack/python-swiftclient.
Complete API documentation at http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/
For more information come hang out in #openstack-swift on freenode.
Thanks,
The Swift Development Team