Installing and Configuring the Storage Nodes

	Note
	OpenStack Object Storage should work on any modern filesystem that supports Extended Attributes (XATTRS). We currently recommend XFS as it demonstrated the best overall performance for the swift use case after considerable testing and benchmarking at Rackspace. It is also the only filesystem that has been thoroughly tested.

Install Storage node packages:

# yum install openstack-swift-account openstack-swift-container openstack-swift-object xfsprogs

For every device on the node you wish to use for storage, setup the XFS volume (/dev/sdb is used as an example). Use a single partition per drive. For example, in a server with 12 disks you may use one or two disks for the operating system which should not be touched in this step. The other 10 or 11 disks should be partitioned with a single partition, then formatted in XFS.
```
# fdisk /dev/sdb
```
```
mkfs.xfs -i size=1024 /dev/sdb1
echo "/dev/sdb1 /srv/node/sdb1 xfs noatime,nodiratime,nobarrier,logbufs=8 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
mkdir -p /srv/node/sdb1
mount /srv/node/sdb1
chown -R swift:swift /srv/node
```

Create /etc/rsyncd.conf:

uid = swift
gid = swift
log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
address = <STORAGE_LOCAL_NET_IP>

[account]
max connections = 2
path = /srv/node/
read only = false
lock file = /var/lock/account.lock

[container]
max connections = 2
path = /srv/node/
read only = false
lock file = /var/lock/container.lock

[object]
max connections = 2
path = /srv/node/
read only = false
lock file = /var/lock/object.lock

Edit the following line in /etc/default/rsync:
```
RSYNC_ENABLE = true
```
Start rsync daemon:
```
# service rsync start
```
Note
The rsync daemon requires no authentication, so it should be run on a local, private network.
Create the swift recon cache directory and set its permissions.
```
# mkdir -p /var/swift/recon
# chown -R swift:swift /var/swift/recon
```

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	Note
	The rsync daemon requires no authentication, so it should be run on a local, private network.