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[Shehjar Tikoo <shehjart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Devin Carlen wrote:
> Hi Shehjar,
>
> Nova's block device volume service currently has support for several
> backends and is made in an abstract way so that adding support for
> Gluster should be a reasonably simple implementation.
>
> There is a new project called Lunr being developed that aims to separate
> the volume code from Nova and have it be implemented as its own stand
> alone service.

Thanks Devin, those two are my main focus areas. I will be coming back with 
more questions in a couple of days.

Regards
-Shehjar


> There was also some conversations around using Gluster as a ring backend
> for OpenStack's object storage system named Swift.
>
> In short, I think there are quite a few places that Gluster can provide
> value to the OpenStack ecosystem.
>
>
> Devin
>
>
> On Jun 3, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Shehjar Tikoo wrote:
>
> > Hi All
> >
> > We're aiming to integrate Gluster with Openstack in a way that allows
> > GlusterFS to be used as the storage for application volumes as well as
> > VMs. I am interested in hearing your ideas on how such an integration
> > can be performed. Being the openstack experts, could you please share
> > some issues I should be considering, the problems I may run into or
> > anything else you think I should know.
> >
> > Thanks -Shehjar
> >
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