Hi Casey,
Thanks a lot for the clarification. I feel that zonegroup made a great sense at the beginning when multisite feature was conceived and (I suspect) zones were always syncing from all other zones within a zonegroup. However, once the "sync_from" was introduced and later the sync policy further enhanced the granularity of the control over data sync, it seems not much advantage is left with zonegroup. Both "sync_from" and sync policy could be moved up to realm level while the isolation of datasets can still be maintained. On the other hand, if some new features are introduced to enable some isolation of metadata within the same realm, probably at zonegroup level, its usefulness may be more justified.
Regards,Yixin
On Friday, June 30, 2023 at 11:29:16 a.m. EDT, Casey Bodley <cbodley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
you're correct that the distinction is between metadata and data;
metadata like users and buckets will replicate to all zonegroups,
while object data only replicates within a single zonegroup. any given
bucket is 'owned' by the zonegroup that creates it (or overridden by
the LocationConstraint on creation). requests for data in that bucket
sent to other zonegroups should redirect to the zonegroup where it
resides
the ability to create multiple zonegroups can be useful in cases where
you want some isolation for the datasets, but a shared namespace of
users and buckets. you may have several connected sites sharing
storage, but only require a single backup for purposes of disaster
recovery. there it could make sense to create several zonegroups with
only two zones each to avoid replicating all objects to all zones
in other cases, it could make more sense to isolate things in separate
realms with a single zonegroup each. zonegroups just provide some
flexibility to control the isolation of data and metadata separately
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 5:48 PM Yixin Jin <yjin77@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
> In the multisite environment, we can get one realm that contains multiple zonegroups, each in turn can have multiple zones. However, the purpose of zonegroup isn't clear to me. It seems that when a user is created, its metadata is synced to all zones within the same realm, regardless whether they are in different zonegroups or not. The same happens to buckets. Therefore, what is the purpose of having zonegroups? Wouldn't it be easier to just have realm and zones?
> Thanks,Yixin
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