Cinder provides a block storage abstraction to a vm. Manila provides a filesystem abstraction. The two are very different, and complementary. I see no reason why the nfs related cinder drivers should be removed based on the existence or maturity of manila - manila is not going to suddenly start providing block storage to a vm. On 29 Sep 2015 06:56, "Sheng Bo Hou" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > I have a question about the file services in OpenStack. > > As you know there is a generic NFS driver in Cinder and other file system > drivers inherit it, while the project Manila is determined to provide the > file system service. > > Will NFS stay with Cinder as the reference implementation for the coming > release or releases? Are all the file system drivers going to move to > Manila? > What is relation between Manila as FSaaS and NFS in Cinder? > Any ideas? > > Thank you. > > Best wishes, > Vincent Hou (侯胜博) > > Staff Software Engineer, Open Standards and Open Source Team, Emerging > Technology Institute, IBM China Software Development Lab > > Tel: 86-10-82450778 Fax: 86-10-82453660 > Notes ID: Sheng Bo Hou/China/IBM@IBMCN E-mail: [email protected] > Address:3F Ring, Building 28 Zhongguancun Software Park, 8 Dongbeiwang > West Road, Haidian District, Beijing, P.R.C.100193 > 地址:北京市海淀区东北旺西路8号中关村软件园28号楼环宇大厦3层 邮编：100193 > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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