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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sheepdog: Distributed Storage System
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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

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.

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