sheepdog/sheepdog
Distributed Storage System for QEMU observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5567
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2092
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1022 stars · 264 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Sheepdog is a distributed storage system written in C that provides highly available block-level storage volumes for QEMU/KVM virtual machines, with support for snapshots, cloning, and thin provisioning. It also offers an S3/Swift-compatible object storage interface and scales across clusters managed by Corosync, ZooKeeper, or a local driver.
Use cases
- provide highly available block storage for QEMU/KVM virtual machines
- set up software-defined distributed storage on a cluster of Linux machines
- store VM disk images with snapshots, cloning, and thin provisioning
- expose S3 or OpenStack Swift compatible object storage
- attach distributed block volumes to a Linux SCSI target (iSCSI)
- build a self-hosted storage backend for OpenStack clouds
When to choose
- you run QEMU/KVM virtualization on Linux and need replicated, highly available block volumes
- you want a simple, self-hosted distributed storage system with snapshot and thin-provisioning support
- you need an S3/Swift-compatible object store you fully control
- you want storage that scales out across many commodity nodes
When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software with recent releases and security fixes
- your deployment is not Linux x86-64 or lacks Corosync support
- you need production-grade support and a large community - consider Ceph instead
- you only need single-node storage without clustering
Facets
service · maturity maintenance
object-storage backup microservices cloud-computing self-hosted infrastructure-as-code c self-hosted distributed-storage block-storage qemu kvm iscsi software-defined-storage thin-provisioning snapshot cloning corosync storage virtualization linux
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/sheepdog/sheepdog · fetched 2026-08-28 · 712ff786f45e
- homepage: http://sheepdog.github.io/sheepdog/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3db64fb64347
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| sheepdog/sheepdog | main | 32 |
For agents
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