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[Ewan Mellor <Ewan.Mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 17 January 2011 18:08
> To: Ewan Mellor
> Cc: Thierry Carrez; openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Deprecating nova-objectstore
> 
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Ewan Mellor
> <Ewan.Mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx]
> >> Sent: 17 January 2011 17:17
> >> To: Ewan Mellor
> >> Cc: Thierry Carrez; openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Deprecating nova-objectstore
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Ewan Mellor
> >> <Ewan.Mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > We could do it in two steps.  You could set up nova-compute ->
> Glance
> >> -> nova-objectstore (testing purposes only).  This would allow us to
> >> remove the S3 code from Nova, but people could still use nova-
> >> objectstore if they don't want to set up Swift.
> >>
> >> This is already done in Bexar, as Chris MacGown completed the S3
> >> backend for Glance. What is NOT the same, though, is that people
> would
> >> not be speaking the s3 API as they do now... they would speak the
> >> Glance REST-like API instead...
> >
> > Yes, that's what I meant -- make Glance the only thing that speaks
> S3, and then we can remove the S3 code from Nova in favour of Glance.
> >
> >> Plus, objects are a superset of
> >> images; Glance only stores images, not all objects...
> >
> > What does this mean?  I didn't even know that anyone was
> distinguishing between an image and an object.
> 
> All images are objects but not all objects are images.  Swift/S3 can
> be used to store anything, not just images, that's what I meant. :)

What's the difference between an image and an object?  They're all just blobs of bits as far as I thought.

Ewan.