This question was also discussed last week. You may want to have a look at the answers there. https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg19997.html
-- Syed Armani On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Kuo Hugo <tonyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [Cinder] (born from nova-volume) > The goal of the Cinder project is to separate the existing nova-volume > block service into its own project. > > > [Swift] > Swift is a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent > object/blob store. Organizations can use Swift to store lots of data > efficiently, safely, and cheaply. > > > Cinder is an project to leverage different backend storage pool as "block > devices" for Nova instance . > > Swift is an object storage . The way to keep files (objects) eventually > consistent. > > There're many differences between Cinder and Swift. > > In a short summary , swift is not that good for very fast real-time I/O . > And the object contents is unstructured . Looks like a box but you can not > open it. Once you modify the content , the whole object will be a new one > box. Cinder provides user a pool for creating volume disk which present > as block level driver. > > If you ask me a question : > Could swift's container be an instance's virtual disk? The answer is "YES" > but in high risk. > > > Cheers > Hugo > > > > > 2013/1/17 harryxiyou <harryxi...@gmail.com> > >> Hi all, >> >> Swift is oriented Openstack object storage but Cinder is oriented >> Openstack >> block storage. What are the detail differences betwwen object storage and >> block storage? Cloud anyone tell me his/her ideas? Thanks inadvance. >> >> -- >> Thanks >> Harry Wei >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > > -- > +Hugo Kuo+ > tonyt...@gmail.com > + <tonyt...@gmail.com>886 935004793 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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