ISOs on RBD ?

[Florent]

Hi Proxmox team,

Why ISO images cannot be stored over RBD ?

Is it only a "testing-period" limitation or other ?

Thank you

 

[dietmar]

RBD is a block device, and we currently need a file system to store ISOs.

 

[Florent]

RBD is a block device, and we currently need a file system to store ISOs.

ISOs cannot be treated as block devices ? CD,DVD,etc... are block devices, aren't ?

 

[m.ardito]

cd, dvd yes, but .iso is a file, which contains files/folders, not a device.
you could mount an .iso in the filesystem as if it was into a device, so you can see its files/folders, not as if it was a device.

Marco