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Chunked transfer encoding

Used in WRITE, UPDATE, and APPEND SCSP methods to send objects of an undetermined content length to a storage cluster.

The exact request header is:

Code Block
Transfer-Encoding: chunked.

See RFC 7230 3.3.1.

Info

Note

COPY rewrites the object manifest only.


Erasure coding

Describes one of the ways an object can be protected in a storage cluster.

A large object written to the cluster using erasure coding is automatically stored on disk as a set of data and parity segments. This process ensures verifies both content protection and optimal storage usage for large objects. Swarm has configuration parameters that enable an object to be automatically erasure-coded on the drive.

Manifest

Swarm object containing a list of the segments that comprise a large object.

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