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(3) I would definitely like to avoid modifying files by hand. I knew about this method but it just does not work for me. I am automatically creating many volumes with cli and modifying them in configuration file is not convenient. I guess it is also not possible for cinder devs to implement it reasonably well.

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You're opposed to manipulating config files by hand, but you recommend Ceph over GlusterFS? Interesting.

Well, I am not opposed to manipulating files by hand. I just dont want to do that when I have CLI for everything else. Keeping the content of the file the same on all servers is more toilsome than simple command. Of course there are tools like chef but that is not the point.

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