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+## For the swift tests you will need three objects to upload for the test
+## examples below are a 512K object, a 500M object, and 1G object
+dd if=/dev/zero of=swift_small bs=512 count=1024
+dd if=/dev/zero of=swift_medium bs=512 count=1024000
+dd if=/dev/zero of=swift_large bs=1024 count=1024000