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

[Chris Webb]

Chris Webb <address@hidden> writes:

> MORITA Kazutaka <address@hidden> 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'.

Very exciting project, by the way!

Best wishes,

Chris.