On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Caitlin Bestler <caitlin.best...@nexenta.com> wrote: > andi.abes asked: > >> Would this also be applicable to the ephemeral instance storage? > > An ephemeral instance is essentially a non-persistent clone of a snapshot > image. > that's an interesting perspective. But currently, those can be snapshotted and made into new images (see [1]). The approach you're describing appears to depend heavily on capabilities of backend storage devices. If snapshoting is only supported using these capabilities - would it mean deprecating these capabilities? (or did you just not consider them?)
[1] http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/creating-images-from-running-instances.html _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
