<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Caitlin Bestler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caitlin.bestler@nexenta.com" target="_blank">caitlin.bestler@nexenta.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p>I'm an architect at Nexenta. So not surprisingly I fully agree that
Gluster is a poor choice for storage in OpenStack.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nexenta could easily apply GlusterFS as an aggregation/scale-out layer - in fact, one could argue they should. Your customers would benefit enormously, so no, I don't understand your statement at all.<br>
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<p>However the real question is what criteria storage vendors should be
judged by the project. These should be<br>
clearly stated and easily verified. Once compliance is dealt with, judging
the quality of specific solutions and<br>
their suitability to specific needs is something that the end users should
do, not the openstack project.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Absolutely.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:sans-serif">
<p>The Cinder project has set minimum standards for Volume Drivers for the
Havana release. Those standards should be applied without debating their
specifics for Gluster on the mailing list.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Are you suggesting that all storage backends are the same? Because that's not true. Data without silos is unique to the GlusterFS implementation. I'm not sure how I can discuss GlusterFS as a storage solution without also mentioniong that feature. <br>
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<p>I would be in full agreement, however, that OpenStack should not
accommodate an API tailored to Gluster's unique architecture.<br></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No one has mentioned that. We're talking about separating implementation from the API interface.<br><br>
</div><div>-JM<br><br></div></div></div></div>