create a driver in Cinder that utilizes raw disks/partitions

Registered by John Griffith

This blueprint has been superseded. See the newer blueprint "Cinder block device driver" for updated plans.

LVM is ideal, but there are folks interested in actually using an entire disk or partition directly for cinder-volumes. Once we seperate out some of the iscsi concerns and provide some utilities that deal with this model directly we can implement a local-disk driver that can be used not only for local block storage work but also be exported/used via iscsi.

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Status:
Complete
Approver:
John Griffith
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
John Griffith
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
John Griffith
Definition:
Superseded
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Good progress
Milestone target:
None
Started by
John Griffith
Completed by
John Griffith

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