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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/12/2012 10:36 AM, Thomas, Duncan wrote:
> We’ve got volumes in production, and while I’d be more comfortable with
> option 2 for the reasons you list below, plus the fact that cinder is
> fundamentally new code with totally new HA and reliability work needing
> to be done (particularly for the API endpoint), it sounds like the
> majority is strongly favouring option 1…

Actually, I believe Cinder is essentially a bit-for-bit copy of
nova-volumes. John G, is that correct?

It's this similarity that really makes option 1 feasible. If the
codebases (and API) were radically different, removal like this would be
much more difficult IMHO.

Best,
-jay