I'll try to update the pve-sheepdog for next week.

Interesting feature are

 "Add MD support", so no more need to have multiples sheepdog daemon for 
multiple disk now :)
- "Add journaling support", fast ssd for journal, fast random write io :)




"Major features since 0.5.6 include:

- Add MD support

Sheepdog can manage multiple disks with one daemon now. The basic
idea of MD is RAID-0 like mechanism that distributes sheep objects
on the local disks without parity or replicating, which instead
relies on the sheepdog's replicated storage to recover the lost
objects on the faulty disk.

- Add journaling support

Yuan reworked the old journal implementation and boosted random
write performance of sheep.

- Move farm from sheep to collie

The farm cluster snapshot in sheep had some drawbacks:

1. After a new node joins the cluster, all former snapshots are
not available to be restored.
2. It is hard to backup cluster snapshot to another storage
system for disaster-tolerance.
3. It is hard to initialize a new cluster by loading another
cluster's snapshot.

New implementation is to move "farm" from sheep to collie and save
cluster snapshot to a local path. This retains all features from
"farm", including:

1. object de-duplication
2. incremental store capability

In addition, it also provides ability of:

1. export cluster snapshot to other storage device for backup and
disaster-tolerance
2. deploy new cluster by restore from one snapshot of other
cluster

- Use hash check for vdi check and recovery

To reduce network traffic, Sheepdog uses a hash values to compare
objects between local and remote.

- Shepherd

Currently, corosync doesn't have enough scalability and ZooKeeper
is not stable under heavy network traffic. This is an initial
implementation for yet another cluster coordinator to solve the
problem.

Shepherd is not mature yet. Don't use it for other than testing
purposes.

- Add support for a trim command

With this support, Sheepdog can remove the objects which are
unnecessary for the guest virtual machines.
"






Alexandre D e rumier

Ingénieur Systèmes et Réseaux


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