Hi I'm creating a storage volume in a storage pool (directory type). I'd like to create a volume that creates a file in a sub directory under the directory that the pool points to but am not able to work out how, maybe it is not possible? My pool was created using following xml... <pool type='dir'> <name>nova-local-pool</name> <target> <path>/home/pcarlton/openstack/stuff/instances</path> <permissions> <mode>0755</mode> <owner>1000</owner> <group>130</group> </permissions> </target> </pool> The volume was created using this xml... stgvol_xml = """ <volume> <name>4291f96a-759a-4b8a-bfe2-7a8ccb118b75-disk</name> <allocation>0</allocation> <capacity unit="G">1</capacity> <target> <format type='qcow2'/> <permissions> <owner>1000</owner> <group>130</group> <mode>0644</mode> <label>image_overlay</label> </permissions> </target> <backingStore> <path>/home/pcarlton/openstack/stuff/nova/instances/_base/07f224f72581f8e029e08ff96827d581b2321a7b</path> <format type='raw'/> <permissions> <owner>1000</owner> <group>130</group> <mode>0644</mode> <label>image_base</label> </permissions> </backingStore> </volume>""" All works ok but I'd like the create the 'disk' file in /home/pcarlton/openstack/stuff/nova/instances/4291f96a-759a-4b8a-bfe2-7a8ccb118b75 Thanks -- Paul Carlton Software Engineer Cloud Services Hewlett Packard Enterprise BUK03:T242 Longdown Avenue Stoke Gifford Bristol BS34 8QZ Mobile: +44 (0)7768 994283 Office: +44 (0)117 316 2189 Email: mailto:paul.carlton2@hpe.com irc: paul-carlton2 Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Limited registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12 1HN Registered No: 690597 England. The contents of this message and any attachments to it are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received this message in error, you should delete it from your system immediately and advise the sender. To any recipient of this message within HP, unless otherwise stated you should consider this message and attachments as "HP CONFIDENTIAL".