<div dir="ltr">I'm interested as well. Seems that simply mounting a DFS to /var/lib/nova is a little "hacky".</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Sylvain Bauza <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sylvain.bauza@digimind.com" target="_blank">sylvain.bauza@digimind.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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    <div>I filed a BP for that :
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      Le 25/04/2013 16:07, Joe Topjian a écrit :<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">I think it's a very blurry line. If you are
        "booting from volume", that's obviously cinder's territory. I
        can see booting normal instances with different storage backends
        going both ways.  
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        <div>This reminds me of a past discussion about whether
          or not the ability for users to mount network filesystems
          should be under cinder or quantum. </div>
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          On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:03 AM, John Mark Walker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnmark@gluster.org" target="_blank">johnmark@gluster.org</a>></span>
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                    <div dir="ltr">I've been meaning to see if there's
                      an existing blueprint for this functionality. 
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                      <div>Along with Gluster, qemu can launch instances
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                        <div>Right now, Nova has hard-coded using
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                <div>Logically, I had thought that this should be part
                  of Cinder, yes? <br>
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                <div>-John Mark<br>
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                <div>Gluster Community Lead, Red Hat<br>
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        Joe Topjian
        <div>Systems Administrator</div>
        <div>Cybera Inc.</div>
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