<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div dir="ltr">I've been meaning to see if there's an existing blueprint for this functionality. <div><br></div><div>Along with Gluster, qemu can launch instances directly in Ceph.<div><br></div><div style="">Right now, Nova has hard-coded using flat-files under /var/lib/nova/instances.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Logically, I had thought that this should be part of Cinder, yes? <br></div><div><br></div><div>-John Mark<br></div><div>Gluster Community Lead, Red Hat<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>