On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:53:16PM -0800, Andy Grover wrote: > Nova is wrapping cmdline tools, and all the vendors interested so far > are foss/cloudy. I'm defintively not advocating that code, quite contrary. Just pointing out that it exists. > This definitely shows others see a need for an API, but if we really > want big storage vendor buy-in, then a better (C?/sockets?) API and > working with non-foss code seems key. > > Also, Nova code executes on the target machine, whereas libstoragemgmt > is running on the mgmt node and the plugins are responsible for > communication with the target node. (just wanted to point out another > difference.) As said, I'm not fond of the nova code, and I'm defintively not fond of placing a storage management abstraction into highlevel "cloud" management code. But this just shows where the lack of a low-level abstraction gets us. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
