Re: [Openstack] Cinder vs Swift architecture

That was certainly some dirty explanation Adam. Thanks :). What is still unclear to me is the architecture. In all the above storage technology (File ,block and object ) we have a physical a hard drive. Now what are the layers above them? Like we must have a driver ,then we must format it with

Re: [Openstack] Cinder vs Swift architecture

Hi Ayushi, The quick and dirty explanation: Cinder can have different back-ends. With a Linux approach, Cinder uses LVM2 to carve up local disks so they can be consumed by virtual machines that need to attach to a volume (for data or to boot). A common way for VM's to consume these volumes is

[Openstack] Cinder vs Swift architecture

Hi, Even after going through number of links and documents online , I am unable to understand that exactly - * how file storage , cinder and swift work if I talk in terms of a personal computer which has openstack insatlled on it.* Can anyone please explain that if I have a hard drive

Re: [Openstack] Cinder vs Swift architecture

Hi Ayushi, If you had not gone through this link, then please have a look and let us know if it is useful: - http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/OpenStack-storage-Cinder-and-Swift-explained On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Ayushi Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > Even