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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

       -b, --bindaddr
              specify IP address of interface to listen on

              Example:

                $ sheep -b 192.168.1.1 ...

              This tries to teach sheep listen to NIC of 192.168.1.1.

              Example:

                $ sheep -b 0.0.0.0 ...

              This  tries  to teach sheep listen to all the NICs available. It can be useful when
              you want sheep to response dog without specified address and port.

       -c, --cluster
              specify the cluster driver (default: corosync)

              Available arguments:
                local: use local driver
                corosync: use corosync driver
                zookeeper: use zookeeper driver, need extra arguments

                zookeeper arguments: address-list,tiemout=value (default as 3000)

              Example:

                $ sheep -c zookeeper:IP1:PORT1,IP2:PORT2,IP3:PORT3,timeout=1000 ...

              This tries to use 3 node zookeeper cluster, which  can  be  reached  by  IP1:PORT1,
              IP2:PORT2, IP3:PORT3 to manage membership and broadcast message and set the timeout
              of node heartbeat as 1000 milliseconds

       -D, --directio
              use direct IO for backend store

       -g, --gateway
              make the progam run as a gateway mode

       -h, --help
              display this help and exit

       -i, --ioaddr
              use separate network card to handle IO requests (default: disabled)

              Example:

                $ sheep -i host=192.168.1.1,port=7002 ...

              This tries to add a dedicated IO NIC of 192.168.1.1:7002 to transfer data.   If  IO
              NIC is down, sheep will fallback to non IO NIC to transfer data.

       -j, --journal
              use jouranl file to log all the write operations. (default: disabled)

              Available arguments:
                size=: size of the journal in megabyes
                dir=: path to the location of the journal (default: $STORE)
                skip: if specified, skip the recovery at startup

              Example:

                $ sheep -j dir=/journal,size=1G

              This tries to use /journal as the journal storage of the size 1G

       -l, --log
              specify  the  log  level, the log directory and the log format(log level default: 6
              [SDOG_INFO])

              Example:

                $ sheep -l dir=/var/log/,level=debug,format=server ...

              Available arguments:
                dir=: path to the location of sheep.log
                level=: log level of sheep.log
                format=: log format type
                dst=: log destination type

              if dir is not specified, use metastore directory

              Available log levels:
                Level      Description
                emerg      system has failed and is unusable
                alert      action must be taken immediately
                crit       critical conditions
                err        error conditions
                warning    warning conditions
                notice     normal but significant conditions
                info       informational notices
                debug      debugging messages default log level is info

              Available log format:
                FormatType      Description
                default         raw format
                server          raw format with timestamp
                json            json format

              Available log destination:
                DestinationType    Description
                default            dedicated file in a directory used by sheep
                syslog             syslog of the system
                stdout             standard output

       -n, --nosync
              drop O_SYNC for write of backend

       -p, --port
              specify the TCP port on which to listen (default: 7000)

       -P, --pidfile
              create a pid file

       -r, --http
              enable http service. (default: disabled)

              Available arguments:
                host=: specify a host to communicate with http server (default: localhost)
                port=: specify a port to communicate with http server (default: 8000)
                swift: enable swift API Example:

                $ sheep -r host=localhost,port=7001,swift ...

              This tries to enable Swift API and use  localhost:7001  to  communicate  with  http
              server.

       -u, --upgrade
              upgrade to the latest data layout

       -v, --version
              show the version

              Sheepdog daemon version 0.8.3

       -w, --cache
              enable object cache

              Available arguments:
                size=: size of the cache in megabyes
                dir=: path to the location of the cache (default: $STORE/cache)
                directio: use directio mode for cache IO, if not specified use buffered IO

              Example:

                $ sheep -w size=200G,dir=/my_ssd,directio ...

              This  tries  to use /my_ssd as the cache storage with 200G allocted to the cache in
              directio mode

       -y, --myaddr
              specify the address advertised to other sheep

              Example:

                $ sheep -y 192.168.1.1:7000 ...

              This tries to tell other nodes through what address they can talk to this sheep.

       -z, --zone
              specify the zone id (default: determined by listen address)

              Example:

                $ sheep -z 1 ...

              This tries to set the zone ID of this sheep to 1 and sheepdog won't store more than
              one copy of any object into this same zone

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>.

                                            2016-01-15                                SHEEPDOG(8)