Remove support for building the sheepdog storage driver backend

The sheepdog project is unmaintained, with last commit in 2018 and
numerous unanswered issues reported.

Remove the libvirt storage driver support for it to follow the removal
of the client support in qemu.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>

docs/formatstorage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 .. role:: since
+.. role:: removed
 
 ==================================
 Storage pool and volume XML format
@@ -17,8 +18,9 @@ volume size, or placement.
 The top level tag for a storage pool document is 'pool'. It has a single
 attribute ``type``, which is one of ``dir``, ``fs``, ``netfs``, ``disk``,
 ``iscsi``, ``logical``, ``scsi`` (all :since:`since 0.4.1` ), ``mpath`` (
-:since:`since 0.7.1` ), ``rbd`` ( :since:`since 0.9.13` ), ``sheepdog`` (
-:since:`since 0.10.0` ), ``gluster`` ( :since:`since 1.2.0` ), ``zfs`` (
+:since:`since 0.7.1` ), ``rbd`` ( :since:`since 0.9.13` ),
+``sheepdog`` (:since:`since 0.10.0`, :removed:`removed in 8.8.0` ),
+``gluster`` ( :since:`since 1.2.0` ), ``zfs`` (
 :since:`since 1.2.8` ), ``vstorage`` ( :since:`since 3.1.0` ), or
 ``iscsi-direct`` ( :since:`since 4.7.0` ). This corresponds to the storage
 backend drivers listed further along in this document.

docs/storage.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 .. role:: since
+.. role:: removed
 
 ==================
 Storage Management
@@ -575,7 +576,7 @@ Sheepdog pool
 This provides a pool based on a Sheepdog Cluster. Sheepdog is a distributed
 storage system for QEMU/KVM. It provides highly available block level storage
 volumes that can be attached to QEMU/KVM virtual machines. The cluster must
-already be formatted. :since:`Since 0.9.13`
+already be formatted. :since:`Introduced in 0.9.13` :removed:`removed in 8.8.0.`
 
 Example Sheepdog pool input
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

libvirt.spec.in

@@ -1170,7 +1170,6 @@ export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=$(stat --printf='%Y' %{_specdir}/%{name}.spec)
            -Dstorage_disk=enabled \
            -Dstorage_mpath=enabled \
            %{?arg_storage_rbd} \
-           -Dstorage_sheepdog=disabled \
            %{?arg_storage_gluster} \
            %{?arg_storage_zfs} \
            -Dstorage_vstorage=disabled \
@@ -1282,7 +1281,6 @@ export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=$(stat --printf='%Y' %{_specdir}/%{name}.spec)
   -Dstorage_mpath=disabled \
   -Dstorage_rbd=disabled \
   -Dstorage_scsi=disabled \
-  -Dstorage_sheepdog=disabled \
   -Dstorage_vstorage=disabled \
   -Dstorage_zfs=disabled \
   -Dsysctl_config=disabled \

meson.build

@@ -1916,16 +1916,6 @@ if conf.has('WITH_LIBVIRTD')
     conf.set('WITH_STORAGE_SCSI', 1)
   endif
 
-  if not get_option('storage_sheepdog').disabled()
-    sheepdogcli_prog = find_program('dog', required: get_option('storage_sheepdog'), dirs: libvirt_sbin_path)
-
-    if sheepdogcli_prog.found()
-      use_storage = true
-      conf.set('WITH_STORAGE_SHEEPDOG', 1)
-      conf.set_quoted('SHEEPDOGCLI', sheepdogcli_prog.path())
-    endif
-  endif
-
   if not get_option('storage_vstorage').disabled()
     vstorage_enable = true
     if host_machine.system() != 'linux'
@@ -2251,7 +2241,6 @@ storagedriver_summary = {
   'mpath': conf.has('WITH_STORAGE_MPATH'),
   'Disk': conf.has('WITH_STORAGE_DISK'),
   'RBD': conf.has('WITH_STORAGE_RBD'),
-  'Sheepdog': conf.has('WITH_STORAGE_SHEEPDOG'),
   'Gluster': conf.has('WITH_STORAGE_GLUSTER'),
   'ZFS': conf.has('WITH_STORAGE_ZFS'),
   'Virtuozzo storage': conf.has('WITH_STORAGE_VSTORAGE'),

meson_options.txt

@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ option('storage_lvm', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'LVM backend
 option('storage_mpath', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'mpath backend for the storage driver')
 option('storage_rbd', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'RADOS Block Device backend for the storage driver')
 option('storage_scsi', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'SCSI backend for the storage driver')
-option('storage_sheepdog', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'Sheepdog backend for the storage driver')
 option('storage_vstorage', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'Virtuozzo storage backend for the storage driver')
 option('storage_zfs', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'ZFS backend for the storage driver')
 

src/storage/meson.build

@@ -51,10 +51,6 @@ storage_backend_scsi_sources = [
   'storage_backend_scsi.c',
 ]
 
-storage_backend_sheepdog_sources = [
-  'storage_backend_sheepdog.c',
-]
-
 storage_backend_vstorage_sources = [
   'storage_backend_vstorage.c',
 ]
@@ -239,27 +235,6 @@ if conf.has('WITH_STORAGE_SCSI')
   }
 endif
 
-if conf.has('WITH_STORAGE_SHEEPDOG')
-  storage_backend_sheepdog_priv_lib = static_library(
-    'virt_storage_backend_sheepdog_priv',
-    storage_backend_sheepdog_sources,
-    dependencies: [
-      src_dep,
-    ],
-    include_directories: [
-      conf_inc_dir,
-    ],
-  )
-
-  virt_modules += {
-    'name': 'virt_storage_backend_sheepdog',
-    'link_whole': [
-      storage_backend_sheepdog_priv_lib,
-    ],
-    'install_dir': storage_backend_install_dir,
-  }
-endif
-
 if conf.has('WITH_STORAGE_VSTORAGE')
   virt_modules += {
     'name': 'virt_storage_backend_vstorage',

src/storage/storage_backend.c

@@ -55,9 +55,6 @@
 #if WITH_STORAGE_RBD
 # include "storage_backend_rbd.h"
 #endif
-#if WITH_STORAGE_SHEEPDOG
-# include "storage_backend_sheepdog.h"
-#endif
 #if WITH_STORAGE_GLUSTER
 # include "storage_backend_gluster.h"
 #endif
@@ -129,9 +126,6 @@ virStorageBackendDriversRegister(bool allbackends G_GNUC_UNUSED)
 #if WITH_STORAGE_RBD
     VIR_STORAGE_BACKEND_REGISTER(virStorageBackendRBDRegister, "rbd");
 #endif
-#if WITH_STORAGE_SHEEPDOG
-    VIR_STORAGE_BACKEND_REGISTER(virStorageBackendSheepdogRegister, "sheepdog");
-#endif
 #if WITH_STORAGE_GLUSTER
     VIR_STORAGE_BACKEND_REGISTER(virStorageBackendGlusterRegister, "gluster");
 #endif

tools/virsh.c

@@ -579,9 +579,6 @@ virshShowVersion(vshControl *ctl G_GNUC_UNUSED)
 #ifdef WITH_STORAGE_RBD
     vshPrint(ctl, " RBD");
 #endif
-#ifdef WITH_STORAGE_SHEEPDOG
-    vshPrint(ctl, " Sheepdog");
-#endif
 #ifdef WITH_STORAGE_GLUSTER
     vshPrint(ctl, " Gluster");
 #endif