4. Features (contd..)
S3 API support
Can work on commodity HW
Quotas and access control
Various Storage Systems
Keystone Authentication
5. But...
You can't:
mount it
have file hierarchies (?)
store live databases
format to a file system
do anything the API does not let you do !
Store objects sized > 5GiB (WIP)
8. Object Server
Stores the objects
Size restricted to less than 5 GiB
Storage, retrieval and deletion
Updates & Replication
Integrity audits
Extended attributes
9. Container Server
Keeps track of objects
Namespace partitioning
Lists objects
SQLite DBs
Globally unique names not necessary