> -----Original Message----- > From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypi...@gmail.com] > Sent: 17 January 2011 18:08 > To: Ewan Mellor > Cc: Thierry Carrez; openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Deprecating nova-objectstore > > 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. :)
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 : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
