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Devin Carlen wrote:
> Hi Shehjar,
> 
> Nova's block device volume service currently has support for several
> backends and is made in an abstract way so that adding support for
> Gluster should be a reasonably simple implementation.
> 
> There is a new project called Lunr being developed that aims to separate
> the volume code from Nova and have it be implemented as its own stand
> alone service.
> 

Thanks Devin, those two are my main focus areas. I will be coming back with 
more questions in a couple of days.

Regards
-Shehjar


> There was also some conversations around using Gluster as a ring backend
> for OpenStack's object storage system named Swift.
> 
> In short, I think there are quite a few places that Gluster can provide
> value to the OpenStack ecosystem.
> 
> 
> Devin
> 
> 
> On Jun 3, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Shehjar Tikoo wrote:
> 
>> Hi All
>> 
>> We're aiming to integrate Gluster with Openstack in a way that allows
>> GlusterFS to be used as the storage for application volumes as well as
>> VMs. I am interested in hearing your ideas on how such an integration
>> can be performed. Being the openstack experts, could you please share
>> some issues I should be considering, the problems I may run into or
>> anything else you think I should know.
>> 
>> Thanks -Shehjar
>> 
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