[vinzvault] short update on where we are headed

Hi, Posting a short update as to where we are headed. I have had a good long look at the sheepdog source base and believe the sheepdog devs and community have developed a great solution. To say it is brilliant is an understatement. Since there is no point in re-inventing the wheel when a better one already exists, I want us to solve one obstacle to wide-scale sheepdog deployment. In simple terms, sheepdog requires a membership system and low performance atomic commit framework. Corosync provides a membership system and very high performance atomic commit framework, but at low scale. By relaxing performance requirements around commits, we can scale to very high node counts. The goals of this project are changing as a result to provide a high scale membership protocol (d1ht) as well as low performance commit framework. While I personally feel this has many applications outside of sheepdog, our first target will be to provide a framework for which sheepdog can use for membership and commit. Regards -steve