[sheepdog] sheepkeeper: a new cluster manager specialized for sheepdog

[MORITA Kazutaka]

At Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:21:15 +0900,
Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm developing a new cluster manager specialized for sheepdog, named
> sheepkeeper.
> The source code can be found in:
> https://github.com/mitake/sheepdog/tree/sheepkeeper-devel
> 
> This is still very incomplete, very buggy and very inefficient. The
> degree of incompleteness is that it doesn't free() obsolete memory
> area and checking return values of system calls which must be done.
> In addition, it can't handle many important situation of join and
> leave of nodes. And it doesn't handle almost every error.
> 
> sheepkeeper cluster manager is designed as master-slave. So it can be
> SPOF. But I'm planning to let it be redundant by utilizing corosync.
> 
> If it can be improved, this can nr an alternative of the group
> management part of ZooKeeper, and it doesn't depend on JVM.
> 
> If you have some opinions or feature requests for a cluster manager
> designed and implemented from scratch, I'd like to hear your comments.

Can you send the patch to this mailing list?  It is much easier to
review.

Thanks,

Kazutaka