OpenAFS vs SheepDog

OpenAFS

Fork of OpenAFS from git.openafs.org for visualization (by openafs)

Distributed filesystems

Source Code

openafs.org

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SheepDog

Distributed Storage System for QEMU (by sheepdog)

Distributed filesystems Qemu qemu-kvm Iscsi iscsi-target Blockdevice Storage distributed-storage C Virtualization Vmm software-defined-storage

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sheepdog.github.io

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OpenAFS		SheepDog
	Project
4	Mentions	-
76	Stars	978
-	Growth	0.8%
8.2	Activity	0.0
2 days ago	Latest Commit	over 3 years ago
C	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

OpenAFS

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenAFS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-18.

Me at an ASCII party
1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 11 Apr 2023

At least you have job security as long as that’s used. A buddy was an an OpenAFS expert and supported it for IBM until the USPS stopped using it.
OpenAFS – An Open Source Distributed Filesystem
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Oct 2021
Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of another Linux machine
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2021

https://www.openafs.org/
But I never did get around to play much with either.
Maybe it's time for someone to build another system on top of foundationdb?
Classic dilemma: function pointers array or giant switch?
2 projects | /r/C_Programming | 7 Feb 2021

SheepDog

Posts with mentions or reviews of SheepDog. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning SheepDog yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenAFS and SheepDog you can also consider the following projects:

Ceph - Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform

GlusterFS - Web Content for gluster.org -- Deprecated as of September 2017

GlusterFS - Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes

Apache Hadoop - Apache Hadoop

MooseFS - MooseFS – Open Source, Petabyte, Fault-Tolerant, Highly Performing, Scalable Network Distributed File System (Software-Defined Storage)

XtreemFS - Distributed Fault-Tolerant File System

Seaweed File System - SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding. [Moved to: https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs]

rozofs - Scale-out storage using erasure coding