[Openstack] Concurrent Access to Volume

Georgios Dimitrakakis giorgis at acmac.uoc.gr
Wed Jan 21 20:42:54 UTC 2015


 The think is that CEPH already exists while Lustre would mean a new 
 installation of it from scratch.

 Best,

 George


> I think you should use lustre instead of ceph if you want above.
>
> /Zee
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Georgios Dimitrakakis  wrote:
>
>> Christian,
>>
>> thanks a lot for your suggestion!
>>
>> Manila seems very promising.
>>
>> Is anybody using manila??
>> Is it stable enough?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> George
>>
>>> On 01/21/2015 12:59 AM, Georgios Dimitrakakis wrote:
>>>
>>>>  For my project it is important to provide concurrent access to
>>>> a
>>>>  mounted volume from different VMs.
>>>>
>>>>  The access must be read/write. In order to do so I am
>>>> thinking of using
>>>>  a clustered filesystem like OCFS2 on top of CEPH.
>>>>
>>>>  Do you have any experience on something similar? Any
>>>> recommendations
>>>>  are mostly welcome.
>>>
>>> Maybe Manila is an option for you. This is a shared filesystem
>>> service.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/openstack/manila [1]
>>>
>>> Christian.
>>
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