[Openstack-operators] Distributed Filesystem

Jacob Godin jacobgodin at gmail.com
Thu Apr 25 15:29:00 UTC 2013


I'm interested as well. Seems that simply mounting a DFS to /var/lib/nova
is a little "hacky".


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Sylvain Bauza
<sylvain.bauza at digimind.com>wrote:

>  I filed a BP for that :
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/glusterfs-native-support
>
>
> Le 25/04/2013 16:07, Joe Topjian a écrit :
>
> I think it's a very blurry line. If you are "booting from volume", that's
> obviously cinder's territory. I can see booting normal instances with
> different storage backends going both ways.
>
>  This reminds me of a past discussion about whether or not the ability
> for users to mount network filesystems should be under cinder or quantum.
>
>
>  On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:03 AM, John Mark Walker <johnmark at gluster.org>wrote:
>
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>>
>> I've been meaning to see if there's an existing blueprint for this
>> functionality.
>>
>>  Along with Gluster, qemu can launch instances directly in Ceph.
>>
>>  Right now, Nova has hard-coded using flat-files under
>> /var/lib/nova/instances.
>>
>>
>>  Logically, I had thought that this should be part of Cinder, yes?
>>
>>  -John Mark
>>  Gluster Community Lead, Red Hat
>>
>>
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