On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Hari Kannan <hari.kan...@citrix.com> wrote: > > Hello All, > > I wish to propose Shared NFS Zone-wide (primary) Block Storage CloudStack - I > have added some details here > (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Shared+NFS+Zone-wide+(primary)+Block+Storage) > along with a JIRA ticket 724 > > Please review and comment > > Hari Kannan
So I have to say that I don't really understand the reason for wanting to invest the effort in doing this, and fear it will just result in a bad experience for the majority of folks who embark upon it. For a small setup this will work fine, but that small setup is also likely to only have a few clusters. I fear that in all but the most niche cases that this simply doesn't scale. Also - trying to emulate Amazon's EBS with something like NFS that is unlikely to scale to EBS proportions seems an interesting choice. I could understand using one of the distributed filesystems like Gluster or Ceph to do this, so why NFS?
