On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Ewan Mellor <ewan.mel...@eu.citrix.com> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypi...@gmail.com] >> Sent: 17 January 2011 17:17 >> To: Ewan Mellor >> Cc: Thierry Carrez; openstack@lists.launchpad.net >> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Deprecating nova-objectstore >> >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Ewan Mellor >> <ewan.mel...@eu.citrix.com> 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. :) -jay _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
