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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1F497D">I think you can try to use nfs driver in cinder. It will create files on nfs share for using it as block device on hypervisor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1F497D">Hope this will help you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:SimSun">发件人<span lang="EN-US">:</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:SimSun"> Ivan Derbenev [mailto:ivan.derbenev@tech-corps.com]
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</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:SimSun">发送时间<span lang="EN-US">:</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:SimSun"> 2015</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:SimSun">年<span lang="EN-US">8</span>月<span lang="EN-US">7</span>日<span lang="EN-US">
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</span><b>收件人<span lang="EN-US">:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> openstack@lists.openstack.org<br>
</span><b>主题<span lang="EN-US">:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> [Openstack] cinder and nova volumes at the same place<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hello!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We have an installation of OS Kilo+Ubunto14.04+KVM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Now we use LVM backend for both Nova and Cinder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I do want to switch it to file backend and store VMs in qcow2 files on ext4 fs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But us there a way to store cinder volumes in the same way?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Regards, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">IT engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Farheap, Russia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ivan Derbenev<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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