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Chuck,
  I was trying to find docs/blueprints and such on launchpad and on
openstack.org, but was not very successful. Can you share pointers to
whatever material is out there?

thx



On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Chuck Thier <cthier at gmail.com> wrote:

> Howdy Stackers,
>
> It has been a while, so I thought I would send out an update.
>
> We are still in the process of doing initial R&D work, and hope to have
> some code available for people to poke at and comment on in the next few
> weeks.  This will include a first rough cut of our proposed volume API,
> driver model, and general architecture.  I feel that we are making good
> strides, and look forward to sharing the code with everyone soon.  The code
> will likely still be very rough, but should be a good starting point for us,
> and the community to begin building off of.
>
> I would also like to clarify the initial purpose of Lunr.  The main goal of
> Lunr is to provide EBS like functionality on top of various storage
> backends.  We will be adopting a driver model that should be similar to that
> of the current Nova volume, and at the worst, be very trivial to port from
> Nova to Lunr.  We welcome contributions that support various 3rd party
> storage systems, and plan to support extra functionality through the
> openstack extension API specification.  Lunr will also include a reference
> storage driver that will support exporting iscsi volumes from commodity
> hardware.
>
> We also have started a IRC channel (#lunr on freenode), so feel free to pop
> in and say hi.
>
> --
> Chuck
>
>
>
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