From 45cd4f310f19d4b5fb5518f7ea36fa49c2d7478a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zac Dover Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:15:38 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] doc/cephfs: streamline a paragraph Streamline a paragraph in doc/cephfs/index.rst. Co-authored-by: Anthony D'Atri Signed-off-by: Zac Dover (cherry picked from commit 820f8ead8919483df37c751400bd6842d4c1bd92) --- doc/cephfs/index.rst | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/cephfs/index.rst b/doc/cephfs/index.rst index 505dd96df5236..57ea336c00be9 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 -- 2.39.5