Comment 3 for bug 537571

Hi,

funny, you found almost the same approach :-)
I started a discussion with the eucalyptus delevopers how to get this
part configured so that it is possible to contribute this code to
eucalyptus.

Greeting

Stefan

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Alexey I. Froloff <email address hidden> wrote:
> Heh.  I have implemented "QCOW2 volumes on a shared filesystem" support
> too.  Please, take a look at my patch, it looks very familiar (but since
> we use shared filesystem, we don't need iSCSI/AoE to attach volumes to
> instances).
>
> My work is based on LVM2Manager class.  Since we use shared filesysem,
> we don't need to "export" volumes, real file is attached to instance.
> Snapshots created by copying image file, in future we may switch to GPFS
> snapshots.  This is the only confusing moment - you can't use volume
> (read-write mount) until snapshotting is finished.
>
> ** Patch added: "eucalyptus-qcow-sharedfs.patch"
>   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40953443/eucalyptus-qcow-sharedfs.patch
>
> --
> Support for Storage other than aeo or iscsi
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537571
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Stefan Majer