From: Zac Dover Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 23:15:38 +0000 (+1000) Subject: doc/cephfs: streamline a paragraph X-Git-Tag: testing/wip-vshankar-testing-20240725.121331-debug~21^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.apps.os.sepia.ceph.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=820f8ead8919483df37c751400bd6842d4c1bd92;p=ceph-ci.git doc/cephfs: streamline a paragraph Streamline a paragraph in doc/cephfs/index.rst. Co-authored-by: Anthony D'Atri Signed-off-by: Zac Dover --- diff --git a/doc/cephfs/index.rst b/doc/cephfs/index.rst index 505dd96df52..57ea336c00b 100644 --- a/doc/cephfs/index.rst +++ b/doc/cephfs/index.rst @@ -10,14 +10,13 @@ a state-of-the-art, multi-use, highly available, and performant file store for a variety of applications, including traditional use-cases like shared home directories, HPC scratch space, and distributed workflow shared storage. -CephFS achieves these goals through the use of some novel architectural -choices. Notably, file metadata is stored in a separate RADOS pool from file -data and served via a resizable cluster of *Metadata Servers*, or **MDS**, -which may scale to support higher throughput metadata workloads. Clients of -the file system have direct access to RADOS for reading and writing file data -blocks. For this reason, workloads may linearly scale with the size of the -underlying RADOS object store; that is, there is no gateway or broker mediating -data I/O for clients. +CephFS achieves these goals through novel architectural choices. Notably, file +metadata is stored in a RADOS pool separate from file data and is served via a +resizable cluster of *Metadata Servers*, or **MDS**\es, which scale to support +higher-throughput workloads. Clients of the file system have direct access to +RADOS for reading and writing file data blocks. This makes it possible for +workloads to scale linearly with the size of the underlying RADOS object store. +There is no gateway or broker that mediates data I/O for clients. Access to data is coordinated through the cluster of MDS which serve as authorities for the state of the distributed metadata cache cooperatively