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On 8/17/2018 1:34 PM, Sean McGinnis wrote:
>> Has there been a discussion on record of how use of placement by cinder
>> would affect "standalone" cinder (or manila) initiatives where there is a
>> desire to be able to run cinder by itself (with no-auth) or just with
>> keystone (where OpenStack style multi-tenancy is desired)?
>>
>> Tom Barron (tbarron)
>>
> A little bit. That would be one of the pieces that needs to be done if we were
> to adopt it.
>
> Just high level brainstorming, but I think we would need something like we have
> now with using tooz where if it is configured for it, it will use etcd for
> distributed locking. And for single node installs it just defaults to file
> locks.
>
Sean and Tom,

That brief discussion was in Vancouver: 
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/YVR-cinder-placement

But as Sean indicated I think the long story short was that we would 
make it so that we could use the placement service if it was available 
but would leave the existing functionality in the case it wasn't there.

Jay