[sheepdog-users] Sheepdog client - Have to be member of Sheepdog ?

[Valerio Pachera]

2013/6/16 Giovanni Bellac <giovannib1979 at ymail.com>:
> Have the sheepdog clients (Qemu/KVM node systems) to be a member of
> Sheepdog?

I would say yes and no.
You can achieve what you ask running sheep with option -g (gateway-only).
This way, the node you add is able to use the vdi but it will not
store any data.

Su you may run
  sheep -g /var/lib/sheepdog

You'll see something like this (note id 2):

# collie node info
Id      Size    Used    Avail   Use%
 0      2.3 TB  1.5 TB  814 GB   64%
 1      2.3 TB  1.3 TB  995 GB   56%
 2      0.0 MB  0.0 MB  0.0 MB    0%
 3      2.3 TB  1.3 TB  1023 GB  55%
Total   6.8 TB  4.0 TB  2.8 TB   59%