Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] Support Archipelago as a QEMU block backend

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 29.05.2014 um 13:14 hat Chrysostomos Nanakos geschrieben:
> Hello team,
> 
> this is a patch implementing support for a new storage layer,
> Archipelago [1][2].
> 
> We've been using Archipelago in our IaaS public cloud production
> environment for over a year now, along with Google Ganeti [3]
> and Ceph [4]. We are currently moving from accessing Archipelago
> through a kernel block driver to accessing it directly through QEMU,
> using this patch.
> 
> Archipelago, already supports different storage backends such as
> NFS, Ceph's RADOS and has initial support for Gluster
> (with improvements from the Gluster community coming soon [5]).

I'm wondering, what is the advantage of using Archipelago in order to
access NFS, Ceph or Gluster volumes when qemu already has support for
all of them?

Kevin