>From the Swift perspective, Ewan is correct... objects are objects. Glance >associates meta-data with its objects to indicate they are virtual images.
John -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jay Pipes Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 12:18 PM To: Ewan Mellor Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Openstack] Deprecating nova-objectstore An object stored in Swift or S3 could just be an Excel spreadsheet... that is an object, not an image. Glance stores images, not all objects. -jay On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Ewan Mellor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jay Pipes [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: 17 January 2011 18:08 >> To: Ewan Mellor >> Cc: Thierry Carrez; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Deprecating nova-objectstore >> >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Ewan Mellor >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: Jay Pipes [mailto:[email protected]] >> >> Sent: 17 January 2011 17:17 >> >> To: Ewan Mellor >> >> Cc: Thierry Carrez; [email protected] >> >> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Deprecating nova-objectstore >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Ewan Mellor >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > We could do it in two steps. You could set up nova-compute -> >> Glance >> >> -> nova-objectstore (testing purposes only). This would allow us to >> >> remove the S3 code from Nova, but people could still use nova- >> >> objectstore if they don't want to set up Swift. >> >> >> >> This is already done in Bexar, as Chris MacGown completed the S3 >> >> backend for Glance. What is NOT the same, though, is that people >> would >> >> not be speaking the s3 API as they do now... they would speak the >> >> Glance REST-like API instead... >> > >> > Yes, that's what I meant -- make Glance the only thing that speaks >> S3, and then we can remove the S3 code from Nova in favour of Glance. >> > >> >> Plus, objects are a superset of >> >> images; Glance only stores images, not all objects... >> > >> > What does this mean? I didn't even know that anyone was >> distinguishing between an image and an object. >> >> All images are objects but not all objects are images. Swift/S3 can >> be used to store anything, not just images, that's what I meant. :) > > What's the difference between an image and an object? They're all just blobs > of bits as far as I thought. > > Ewan. > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
