CloudFS feature proposal

[wariola at gmail.com]

Any plan to package Sheepdog?

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Steven Dake <sdake at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 11/13/2010 09:50 PM, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:58:37 -0700
> > Robyn Bergeron <robyn.bergeron at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Jeff had mentioned on irc the idea of packaging RBD, which uses the
> lower
> >> layer of Ceph (per Jeff's description when we were talking).
> >
> > See, my agenda was to ask next if Jeff's CloudFS had enough consistency
> > to back a block device emulator and thus displace Speepdog, which I see
> > as too ad-hoc. Now if Jeff himself prefers to package RBD (RADOS), then
>
> It is true that sheepdog is not generically useful outside of block
> storage and specifically QEMU enabled systems (and perhaps XEN).
> However in the Fedora performance case, I expect sheepdog with its lower
> memory copy operation count and tight integration with QEMU to produce
> better performance results and lower cpu utilization, resulting in
> higher density of VMs on equivalent hardware.  There is only one way to
> validate this speculation - integrate the various solutions into Fedora
> and see which has the best mix of real-world attributes.
>
> Regards
> -steve
>
> > this may be an admission that CloudFS is not up to it. Or perhaps he does
> > not like the idea for other reason. I just basically want him to
> > discuss the alternatives. I know he knows about them more than I do,
> > hence the question.
> >
> > -- Pete
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