<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
About GlusterFS, I found a blog talked about Gluster limitation and<br>
want to share it with others:<br>
<a href="https://shellycloud.com/blog/2013/09/why-glusterfs-should-not-be-implemented-with-openstack" target="_blank">https://shellycloud.com/blog/2013/09/why-glusterfs-should-not-be-implemented-with-openstack</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's unfortunate that that blog post appears in so many gluster+openstack google searches. </div><div><br></div><div>As per the comments in that blog: It's full of inaccuracies. For example, the blog mentions the inability to snapshot a volume. I believe the author is confusing native Gluster snapshotting versus snapshotting in OpenStack.</div><div><br></div><div>Please see this Cinder driver matrix and you will see that Gluster is a fully functional driver:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CinderSupportMatrix">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CinderSupportMatrix</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm definitely not trying to push Gluster. If Ceph works for you, that's awesome. But I just wanted to comment on the inaccuracies of that blog post.</div></div></div></div>