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Block storage is like a SAN or Amazon's EBS; Object Storage is like a NAS or Amazon's S3 or Rackspace Cloud Files (Swift). So they're not using Swift for block
by justinsb 15y ago
Block storage is like a SAN or Amazon's EBS; Object Storage is like a NAS or Amazon's S3 or Rackspace Cloud Files (Swift).
So they're not using Swift for block storage, unless they've built some clever stuff on top.
OpenStack does include a volume service for block storage, but it can use a number of back-ends.