namespace. Objects written to a namespace within the pool can only be accessed
by users who have access to the namespace.
-.. note:: Currently (i.e., ``firefly``), namespaces are only useful for
- applications written on top of ``librados``. Ceph clients such as block
- device, object storage and file system do not currently support this
- feature.
+.. note:: Namespaces are primarily useful for applications written on top of
+ ``librados`` where the logical grouping can alleviate the need to create
+ different pools. Ceph Object Gateway (from ``luminous``) uses namespaces for various
+ metadata objects.
The rationale for namespaces is that pools can be a computationally expensive
method of segregating data sets for the purposes of authorizing separate sets