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Re: Difference between modules

 

Basically:
   - Swift: Object-based storage (e.g. Amazon S3)
   - Cinder: Block-based storage (e.g. Ceph RBD)

2012/11/27 Johannes Baltimore <johannes.btmr@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hello everyone.
>
> I've been writing about my little experiments with OpenStack lately, and
> I've come to the conclusion that I do not know the difference between Swift
> and Cinder. More precisely, I don't know what does Swift do. Can anyone
> help me?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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