<div dir="ltr">You are describing the problems of using a shared filesystem backend for cinder, instead of using a driver with direct connection at block-device level.<div><br></div><div>It has improved a lot in the last 18 months or so, specially if you want to use as shared storage for your VMs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Seems the snapshotting feature is on the way:</div><div><a href="https://github.com/openstack/cinder/blob/master/cinder/volume/drivers/glusterfs.py">https://github.com/openstack/cinder/blob/master/cinder/volume/drivers/glusterfs.py</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>But the killer feature is the direct access from QEMU to Gluster using libgfapi. It seems it has been added in Havana and it's in master branch since mid August:</div><div><a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/39498/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/39498/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>If I had to consider a scalable storage solution for an Openstack deployment for the next 10 years, I would consider Gluster.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Diego</div><div><br></div><div><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Maciej Gałkiewicz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:macias@shellycloud.com" target="_blank">macias@shellycloud.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hello<br>
<br>
For everyone looking for some info regarding GlusterFS and Openstack<br>
integration I suggest my blog post:<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><br>
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regards<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
Maciej Gałkiewicz<br>
Shelly Cloud Sp. z o. o., Sysadmin<br>
<a href="http://shellycloud.com/" target="_blank">http://shellycloud.com/</a>, <a href="mailto:macias@shellycloud.com">macias@shellycloud.com</a><br>
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