Assuming that the clone is atomic so that the client only ever grabbed a complete old or new version of the file, that method really seems ideal. How much work/time would that be? The objects will likely average around 10-20MB, but it's possible that in some cases they may grow to a few hundred MB. On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > With a bit of additional support in the rados tool, we could write to > object $foo.tmp with key $foo, and then clone it into position and delete > the .tmp. > > If they're really big objects, though, you may also be better off with > radosgw, which provides striping and atomicity.. > > sage -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html