2ce5b11b1a
This patch changes the name of the Admin-Guide from the Cloud
Admin Guide to the Administrator guide. This affects the
filename in the repository, and references to cloud administrators
within the document texts.
1.) Changing instances of 'cloud administrator'
to 'administrator'.
2.) Change links from '/admin-guide-cloud/' to
'/admin-guide/' within the Admin Guide.
3.) Adjust .htaccess file.
Change-Id: I7f21a710e922981aa295afc0616de36fd819b523
Implements: blueprint user-guides-reorganised
1.5 KiB
Erasure coding
Erasure coding is a set of algorithms that allows the reconstruction of missing data from a set of original data. In theory, erasure coding uses less capacity with similar durability characteristics as replicas. From an application perspective, erasure coding support is transparent. Object Storage (swift) implements erasure coding as a Storage Policy. See Storage Policies for more details.
There is no external API related to erasure coding. Create a container using a Storage Policy; the interaction with the cluster is the same as any other durability policy. Because support implements as a Storage Policy, you can isolate all storage devices that associate with your cluster's erasure coding capability. It is entirely possible to share devices between storage policies, but for erasure coding it may make more sense to use not only separate devices but possibly even entire nodes dedicated for erasure coding.
Important
The erasure code support in Object Storage is considered beta in
Kilo. Most major functionality is included, but it has not been tested
or validated at large scale. This feature relies on ssync
for durability. We recommend deployers do extensive testing and not
deploy production data using an erasure code storage policy. If any bugs
are found during testing, please report them to https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift