[Sheepdog] some questions about sheepdog

[MORITA Kazutaka]

At Fri, 5 Aug 2011 11:07:44 +0200,
Frank Matthieß wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> [Frank Doege, Donnerstag 04 August 2011 11:06]:
> > At first, this really looks like a great project and I feel also that
> > its very alive, so I am planning to do a test installation of
> > sheepdog storage backed KVM
> 
> I get my first advice to sheepdog from the feature announcement of 
> fedora 16 and take a closer look. The available information on the 
> projecthomepage reads very promising. 
> 
> So i have two questions, which i'm not answerd by reading the docs:
> 
> 1) You only mention x64-64 systems. Is there a technical oder other
>    important reason to run only in 64bit environment? I have build it
>    on an debian squeeze 32bit system, but had actually not run this
>    binaries.

I think the only problem is the endianness issue.  Unless different
endianness architectures coexist in the same cluster, Sheepdog would
work.  If somebody can confirm that Sheepdog works on the other
architectures, I'd like to add it to the supported architecture list.

> 
> 2) Is s simple two-node mirror-like cluster possible with sheepdog?

Yes, it is possible.

>    If not, why is it not possible?


Thanks,

Kazutaka