On 29/09, Duncan Thomas wrote: > 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 > > > >
I agree with Duncan, There is a clear distinction between the projects' objectives: - Cinder provides the canonical storage provisioning control plane in OpenStack for block storage as well as delivering a persistence model for instance storage. - Manila is a File Share Service, in a similar manner, provides coordinated access to shared or distributed file systems. So I wouldn't move out our NFS drivers. As the relation between those is that while they both use the same storage type they expose it completely different. Cheers, Gorka. __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
