When the file storage backend is used, the filesystem_store_datadir
configuration option in glance-api.conf
declares the directory Glance uses to store images (relative to the node running the glance-api service).
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | $ #for RHEL/CentOS/Fedora derived distributions $ sudo openstack -config --get /etc/glance/glance-api .conf \ DEFAULT filesystem_store_datadir /var/lib/glance/images/ $ #for Ubuntu derived distributions $ sudo cat /etc/glance/glance-api .conf| grep \ filesystem_store_datadir| egrep -v "^#.*" filesystem_store_datadir= /var/lib/glance/images/ |