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[Matt Joyce <matt.joyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe swift CAN be used as a block device via FUSE, and I believe it
has been done before.  I wouldn't recommend it though.

-Matt

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sebastien, you are correct.
>
> Udit, you will need to provide a bit more information on what you are
> looking to do with Swift.
>
> Thanks,
> -jay
>
> p.s. sorry for top-posting.
>
>
> On 06/12/2012 08:02 AM, Sébastien Han wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If you planned to use Swift to store the virtual images disk and run
>> instance over Swift: it's not possible.
>> If you planned to use swift for nova-volume (cinder) and attaching disk:
>> it's also not possible.
>>
>> Swift is *NOT*:
>>
>>  * a filesystem
>>  * a block device
>>
>>
>> Perhaps, Swift can be use as a backend for Glance and of course object
>> storage like S3.
>>
>> Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Udit Agarwal <fzdudit@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:fzdudit@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hi,____
>>
>>
>>       I have setup nova compute and storage on different nodes. I want
>>    to create new virtual machine images on my nova compute node. I also
>>    want to configure these virtual machines to use swift(openstack
>>    storage that is setup on a different node) for their storage
>>    purposes. But I have no idea how to do this? Can anyone help me in
>>    this matter.____
>>
>>    __ __
>>
>>       Thanks in advance.
>>
>>    ____
>>
>>    __ __
>>
>>    --Udit Agarwal ____
>>
>>
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