Excerpts from Randall Burt's message of 2013-12-05 09:05:44 -0800: > On Dec 5, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Clint Byrum <cl...@fewbar.com> > wrote: > > > Excerpts from Monty Taylor's message of 2013-12-04 17:54:45 -0800: > >> Why not just use glance? > >> > > > > I've asked that question a few times, and I think I can collate the > > responses I've received below. I think enhancing glance to do these > > things is on the table: > > > > 1. Glance is for big blobs of data not tiny templates. > > 2. Versioning of a single resource is desired. > > 3. Tagging/classifying/listing/sorting > > 4. Glance is designed to expose the uploaded blobs to nova, not users > > > > My responses: > > > > 1: Irrelevant. Smaller things will fit in it just fine. > > Fitting is one thing, optimizations around particular assumptions about the > size of data and the frequency of reads/writes might be an issue, but I admit > to ignorance about those details in Glance. >
Optimizations can be improved for various use cases. The design, however, has no assumptions that I know about that would invalidate storing blobs of yaml/json vs. blobs of kernel/qcow2/raw image. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
