From: Gregory O'Neill <oneill.gs@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:17:00 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: doc: clarify availability vs integrity
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doc: clarify availability vs integrity

(cherry picked from commit 3888cf77075eceb079b1d5a8ce19092d12fd82bd)
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diff --git a/doc/architecture.rst b/doc/architecture.rst
index 2b28f9af1eac3..23c614a230e28 100644
--- a/doc/architecture.rst
+++ b/doc/architecture.rst
@@ -739,7 +739,8 @@ of ``K+M`` so that each chunk is stored in an OSD in the acting set. The rank of
 the chunk is stored as an attribute of the object.
 
 For instance an erasure coded pool can be created to use five OSDs (``K+M = 5``) and
-sustain the loss of two of them (``M = 2``).
+sustain the loss of two of them (``M = 2``). Data may be unavailable until (``K+1``)
+shards are restored.
 
 Reading and Writing Encoded Chunks
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~