[Openstack] Lunr Update

Chuck Thier cthier at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 19:47:08 UTC 2011


That is a good question, but if you can wait just a little bit longer, I
think things will become much clearer :)

--
Chuck

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:39 PM, andi abes <andi.abes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks !
>
> silly question... could futurestack (https://launchpad.net/futurestack) be
> the home for these pointers (and maybe other results from the design summit,
> which alas I missed) ?
>
> a.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Chuck Thier <cthier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andi,
>>
>> There was the initial blue print  at:
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/integrate-block-storage
>>
>> And the notes from the discussion at the design summit at:
>> http://etherpad.openstack.org/lunr-blueprint
>>
>> There are also discussion post summit archived on the mailing lists.
>>
>> There should be clearer docs and information available when we make the
>> initial code relase.
>>
>> --
>> Chuck
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:31 PM, andi abes <andi.abes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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>>
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