Thanks for the documentation. With Perry Myers' help getting my subscriptions reset and the Folsom preview documentation I was able to finally get Swift installed and running on my RHEL6.3 server. I configured my Swift storage using the loopback device described in the Folsom Swift install document. I would now like to replace the loopback device with a filesystem supplied by IBM's HPSS storage system. This filesystem is called VFS and is POSIX compliant and supports extended attributes. This filesystem is one namespace that will have 6 different mount points, each pointing to a different directory in the namespace for each of the six filesystems that the loopback device is currently providing. The only constraint with the filesystem is that it only supports ASCII data. Does this sound feasible and if so, what do I need to do in order to make the change? Here is how I plan to proceed: <ul> <li>Delete any objects and containers currently on the devices. <li>Stop the Swift services (if necessary.) <li>Unmount the loopback devices. <li>Mount the VFS filesytem using the /srv/node/zXdX as mount points <li>Restart the Swift services (if necessary.)</ul> Regards. David Hernandez Contractor / HPSS IBM Global Business Services - US Federal 12301 Kurland Dr Suite 300 Houston, TX 77034-4812 Mobile 713-444-5755 From: Derek Higgins <derekh@redhat.com> To: David Hernandez/Houston/Contr/IBM@IBMUS Cc: Perry Myers <pmyers@redhat.com>, Derek Higgins <dhiggins@redhat.com>, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>, Anthony Liguori/Austin/IBM@IBMUS Date: 10/19/2012 03:58 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [rhos-list] Redhat OpenStack Swift <hr noshade> <tt>On 10/19/2012 12:53 PM, Perry Myers wrote: > > Derek, perhaps it would help here if you could provide David with a > preview of the Swift documentation for RHOS Folsom that you've been > working on. If you can get him that, then he can just ignore the > upstream documentation. Hi David, attached is a preview version documentation explaining how to use our packages to install swift. Unfortunately it has yet to be converted to a more visually pleasing format. It should provide you with all that is needed for a swift all in one using our packages. You are probably the first person to use it so if you notice any problems in it let me know An alternative you may want to try is the installer[1], you can follow the instructions in the README file, but only enable swift in ans.txt, like below. CONFIG_GLANCE_INSTALL=n CONFIG_NOVA_INSTALL=n CONFIG_DASHBOARD_INSTALL=n CONFIG_SWIFT_INSTALL=y CONFIG_CLIENT_INSTALL=y thanks, Derek. </tt><a href="https://github.com/derekhiggins/os-installer"><tt>https://github.com/derekhiggins/os-installer</tt></a><tt> [attachment "swiftdocs.txt" deleted by David Hernandez/Houston/Contr/IBM] </tt>