[Labs-l] swift available from within labs

[Platonides]

On 28/03/12 02:07, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Swift (running in labs) is now available to all labs projects to use for
> integration testing with mediawiki.  It is only available from within
> labs; it does not have a public IP address. 
> 
> Swift in labs treats upload.wikimedia.org <http://upload.wikimedia.org>
> as its back end, so if you request an image that doesn't exist in swift
> (but does exist in upload), it will use the 404 handler and fetch the
> real data.  Because of this it will appear to have all the data you
> need, though will respond slowly at first.
> 
> I have only created the commons container, so right now it will only
> fetch images that exist in commons.  It will return 401 or 500 for all
> other wikis.  If there is a short list of wikis for which you would like
> it to work, let me know and I will create them for you.  Alternately,
> you can join the 'swift' project and follow the documentation
> <http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Swift/Setup_New_Swift_Cluster> and
> make them yourself!  :)

Great!

What will happen when someone decides to iterate all commons files from
labs? Will swift-labs begin discarding non-owned files in some LRU kind?
Or will it stubbornly try to keep all of them until it fills its disks
and is no longer able to operate?