RE: [ANNOUNCE] Sheepdog: Distributed Storage System for KVM

Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-21T09:08:36Z

Quite interesting. But would it be possible to use corosync for the cluster communication? The point is that we need corosync anyways for pacemaker, it is written in C (high performance) and seem to implement the feature you need?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org] On
> Behalf Of MORITA Kazutaka
> Sent: Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009 07:14
> To: kvm@vger.kernel.org; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; linux-
> fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Sheepdog: Distributed Storage System for KVM
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Sheepdog is a distributed storage system for KVM/QEMU. It provides
> highly available block level storage volumes to VMs like Amazon EBS.
> Sheepdog supports advanced volume management features such as snapshot,
> cloning, and thin provisioning. Sheepdog runs on several tens or
> hundreds
> of nodes, and the architecture is fully symmetric; there is no central
> node such as a meta-data server.