[Openais] announcement of the vinzvault project

[Dietmar Maurer]

> Our project is focused around one goal: providing a small footprint
> (10kloc) highly available block storage area for virtual machines
> optimized for Linux data-centers.  Our plans don't depend on SAN
> hardware, software, hardware fencing devices, or any other hardware
> then
> is commonly available on commodity hardware.   We intend to trade these
> lower-scale high cost technologies for higher-scale lower cost
> techniques.

Are you aware of the 'sheepdog' project?

http://www.osrg.net/sheepdog/

The goals looks quite similar to me - or what is the difference?

- Dietmar