Hi Vincent,
Just to complement what Mike and Gorka said, Cinder NFS drivers does not
provision FS services. It 'consumes' a FS export, and provisions block
storage.
To be more detailed, the Cinder NFS backend, mount a remote share from a
NFS server, and create/stores the cinder volumes as files in
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 - ma
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
pro
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 f
