Swift Design Specifications

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Documents in this repo are a collection of ideas. They are not necessarily a formal design for a feature, nor are they docs for a feature, nor are they a roadmap for future features.

• At-Rest Encryption
• Changing Policy of Containers
• Container Sharding
• Container aliases
• Scaling Expiring Objects
• Resolving limitations of fast-POST
• formpost should allow subprefix-based signatures
• Improve Erasure Coding Efficiency for Global Cluster
• Increasing ring partition power
• Send notifications on PUT/POST/DELETE requests
• tempurls with a prefix-based scope
• Swift Request Tagging for detailed logging/tracing
• PACO Single Process deployments
• Swift Symbolic Links
• Automated Tiering Support

Specifications Repository Information

• Contributing to swift-specs
  • HowToContribute
  • GerritWorkFlow
• Team and repository tags
• Swift Specs Repository
  • This archive is no longer active. Content is kept for historic purposes.
  • Repository Structure
  • The Flow of an Idea from your Head to Implementation
  • Spec Lifecycle Rules
  • How to ask questions and get clarifications about a spec
  • Learn As We Go

Archived Specs

• The Done Directory
• Erasure Code Support
• Composite Tokens and Service Accounts

Indices and tables

• Index
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