SHEEPDOG(8)

NAME
sheep - Distributed Block Storage System for QEMU

SYNOPSIS
sheep [options] [PATH]

DESCRIPTION
sheep - Sheepdog is a distributed storage system for QEMU. It provides highly available block level storage volumes to virtual machines. Sheepdog supports advanced volume management features such as snapshot, cloning, and thin provisioning. The architecture of Sheepdog is fully symmetric; there is no central node such as a meta-data server. The server daemon is called sheep(8). A command line utility is available via dog(8). QEMU virtual machines use the sheep daemon via a block driver available in qemu(1).

OPTIONS
@OPTIONS@

PATH
Proper LSB systems will store sheepdog files in /var/lib/sheepdog. The init script uses this directory by default. The directory must be on a filesystem with xattr support. In the case of ext3, user_xattr should be added to the mount options. mount -o remount,user_xattr /var/lib/sheepdog

DEPENDENCIES
sheepdog requires QEMU 0.13.z or later and Corosync 1.y.z.

FILES
/var/lib/sheepdog - Directory containing block storage information

SEE ALSO
dog(8), qemu(1), sheepfs(8), corosync_overview(8)

AUTHORS
This software is developed by the sheepdog community which may be reached via mailing list at <sheepdog@lists.wpkg.org>.