From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp,
javier@guerrag.com
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sheepdog: Distributed Storage System for KVM
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:36:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE3E3F0.3020606@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091024003756G.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
On 10/23/2009 05:40 PM, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:14:29 -0500
> Javier Guerra<javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
>
>
>>> I think that the major difference between sheepdog and cluster file
>>> systems such as Google File system, pNFS, etc is the interface between
>>> clients and a storage system.
>>>
>> note that GFS is "Global File System" (written by Sistina (the same
>> folks from LVM) and bought by RedHat). Google Filesystem is a
>> different thing, and ironically the client/storage interface is a
>> little more like sheepdog and unlike a regular cluster filesystem.
>>
> Hmm, Avi referred to Global File System? I wasn't sure. 'GFS' is
> ambiguous. Anyway, Global File System is a SAN file system. It's
> a completely different architecture from Sheepdog.
>
I did, and yes, it is completely different since you don't require
central storage.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-25 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-21 5:13 [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sheepdog: Distributed Storage System for KVM MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-21 8:28 ` [Qemu-devel] " Nikolai K. Bochev
2009-10-21 8:45 ` Nikolai K. Bochev
2009-10-23 9:59 ` MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-21 9:08 ` [Qemu-devel] " Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-23 10:06 ` [Qemu-devel] " MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-23 10:17 ` Chris Webb
2009-10-23 10:26 ` Chris Webb
2009-10-23 11:10 ` [Qemu-devel] " Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-23 11:45 ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-22 15:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-10-22 16:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-22 22:09 ` Alexander Graf
2009-10-23 10:41 ` MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-23 11:10 ` Alexander Graf
2009-10-23 16:17 ` MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-23 14:14 ` Javier Guerra
2009-10-23 14:58 ` Chris Webb
2009-10-23 15:10 ` Javier Guerra
2009-10-23 17:05 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-25 8:44 ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-25 10:55 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-23 15:40 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-10-25 5:36 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-10-25 8:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-26 6:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-22 18:46 ` Avishay Traeger
2009-10-23 11:22 ` [Qemu-devel] " Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-23 19:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-23 19:45 ` Javier Guerra
2009-10-24 2:49 ` MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-28 3:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " MORITA Kazutaka
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