----- Original Message ----- > From: "Craig Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Gregory Farnum" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 11:48:15 AM > Subject: Re: RadosGW Direct Upload Limitation > > > > > Maybe, but I'm not sure if Yehuda would want to take it upstream or > not. This limit is present because it's part of the S3 spec. For > larger objects you should use multi-part upload, which can get much > bigger. > -Greg > > > Note that the multi-part upload has a lower limit of 4MiB per part, and the > direct upload has an upper limit of 5GiB. The limit is 10MB, but it does not apply to the last part, so basically you could upload any object size with it. I would still recommend using the plain upload for smaller object sizes, it is faster, and the resulting object might be more efficient (for really small sizes). Yehuda > > So you have to use both methods - direct upload for small files, and > multi-part upload for big files. > > Your best bet is to use the Amazon S3 libraries. They have functions that > take care of it for you. > > > I'd like to see this mentioned in the Ceph documentation someplace. When I > first encountered the issue, I couldn't find a limit in the RadosGW > documentation anywhere. I only found the 5GiB limit in the Amazon API > documentation, which lead me to test on RadosGW. Now that I know it was done > to preserve Amazon compatibility, I don't want to override the value > anymore. > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com