From: Abhishek Lekshmanan Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 08:50:14 +0000 (+0200) Subject: doc: update the rados namespace docs X-Git-Tag: v12.1.2~10^2 X-Git-Url: http://git-server-git.apps.pok.os.sepia.ceph.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4a3c8278e130556fb0dd92ebb422abaf0572d7ea;p=ceph.git doc: update the rados namespace docs Since last update was as of firefly and we use namespaces in RGW Signed-off-by: Abhishek Lekshmanan --- diff --git a/doc/rados/operations/user-management.rst b/doc/rados/operations/user-management.rst index 2e47f37ff35..9cbee9a2f98 100644 --- a/doc/rados/operations/user-management.rst +++ b/doc/rados/operations/user-management.rst @@ -218,10 +218,10 @@ namespace such that reads and writes by the user take place only within the 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