From daf585247b9397f772911a005468f734d71ef28c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Adam Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 01:04:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc:man:vfs_glusterfs: improve and update description. Signed-off-by: Michael Adam Reviewed-by: Guenther Deschner (cherry picked from commit 7852dd9e4c806d4e2b5428cb783b8ce6db8902d0) --- docs-xml/manpages/vfs_glusterfs.8.xml | 33 +++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages/vfs_glusterfs.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages/vfs_glusterfs.8.xml index 363ee74e1de..f569201ad8c 100644 --- a/docs-xml/manpages/vfs_glusterfs.8.xml +++ b/docs-xml/manpages/vfs_glusterfs.8.xml @@ -32,28 +32,29 @@ 8 suite. - The vfs_glusterfs VFS module exposes - GlusterFS specific features for use by Samba. + GlusterFS + (http://www.gluster.org) + is an Open Source clustered file system capable of scaling to + several peta-bytes. With its FUSE based native client, + GlusterFS is available as a POSIX compliant file system and can + hence be shared by Samba without additional steps. - GlusterFS is a clustered file system, capable of scaling - to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks - over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP and interconnect into one large - parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any - commodity hardware, such as x86-64 server with SATA-II RAID and - Infiniband HBA. - - GlusterFS is fully POSIX compliant file system. It supports - standard clients running standard applications over any standard - IP network and also FUSE. It works seemlessly on - different operating systems, currently supported on GNU/Linux - and Solaris. + The vfs_glusterfs VFS module provides an + alternative, and superior way to access a Gluster filesystem + from Samba for sharing. It does not require a Gluster FUSE mount + but directly accesses the GlusterFS daemon through its library + libgfapi, thereby omitting the expensive + kernel-userspace context switches and taking advantage of some + of the more advanced features of GlusterFS. - This module is stackable, provided glusterfs lies in the bottom - of the stack. + This module can be combined with other modules, but it + should be the last module in the vfs objects + list. Modules added to this list to the right of the glusterfs + entry may not have any effect at all. -- 2.11.4.GIT