From 6ad4c1fd98c4c36ebfd7c54ebd6bd9768f73eed2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sage Weil Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:29:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] debian: description updates --- debian/control | 20 +++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 241b8646597ed..3248c0f2a4eb3 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -19,18 +19,28 @@ Description: distributed file system Package: ceph-fuse Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libfuse2 +Recommends: ceph Description: FUSE-based client for the Ceph distributed file system Ceph is a distributed network file system designed to provide - excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. + excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. This is a + FUSE-based client that allows you to mount a Ceph file system without + root privileges. . - This is a FUSE-based client that allows you to mount a Ceph file - system without root privileges. + Because the FUSE-based client has certain inherent performance + limitations, it is recommended that the native Linux kernel client + be used if possible (see ceph-kclient-source). If it is not + practical to load a kernel module (insufficient privileges, older + kernel, etc.), then the FUSE client will do. Package: ceph-kclient-source Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, make Description: source for client kernel module for the Ceph distributed file system Ceph is a distributed network file system designed to provide - excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. + excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. This is the + Ceph client source package for building the client kernel module. . - This is the ceph kernel source package for use with module-assistant. + This native kernel client is faster and is more robust than the + FUSE-based client (ceph-fuse). However, you need to compile the + module against your running kernel and will need root privileges + to load it. -- 2.39.5