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From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sheepdog: Distributed Storage System for KVM
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:17:38 +0100
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MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp> writes:

> We use JGroups (Java library) for reliable multicast communication in
> our cluster manager daemon. We don't worry about the performance much
> since the cluster manager daemon is not involved in the I/O path. We
> might think about moving to corosync if it is more stable than
> JGroups.

I'd love to see this running on top of corosync too. Corosync is a well
tested, stable cluster manager, and doesn't have the JVM dependency of
jgroups so feels more suitable for building 'thin virtualisation fabrics'.

Cheers,

Chris.