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On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 5:27 PM, MORITA Kazutaka
<morita.kazutaka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:14:42 +0800,
> harryxiyou wrote:
[...]
>
> Sheepdog uses an own protocol, and I think your file system is similar.
>
> IIUC, what you need to do are:
>  1. modify libvirt so that you can specify your file system as a QEMU
>     disk
>  2. add a volume driver to Cinder to handle your file system
>
> You don't need to modify Nova.  You can use
> nova.virt.libvirt.volume.LibvirtNetVolumeDriver as a libvirt volume
> driver like sheepdog and rbd.
>

I have the same thoughts. Morita, thanks for your help.
You can also see another emali i sent to you a moment ago named
"Add a new block storage driver by Libvirt/Qemu way for Openstack",
which says how to add a new block storage for Openstack in details.
I hope you can review that one and give me your suggestions if you
have free time. Thanks in advance ;-)

-- 
Thanks
Harry Wei