From c73a46942f5f124b0ddcf991baff4b5150a9de57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zac Dover Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 09:22:07 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] doc/glossary: disambiguate "OSD" Distinguish "object storage device" from "object storage daemon". Signed-off-by: Zac Dover (cherry picked from commit 02360acb25dfb633cee5c5dd90fd445edf5bcb31) --- doc/glossary.rst | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/glossary.rst b/doc/glossary.rst index 246c5cd4f90ba..35b20dc1900ab 100644 --- a/doc/glossary.rst +++ b/doc/glossary.rst @@ -187,13 +187,16 @@ See :term:`OSD`. OSD - **O**\bject **S**\torage **D**\evice. A physical or logical - storage unit (for example: LUN). Ceph users sometimes use the - term "OSD" to refer to :term:`Ceph OSD Daemon`, but this is - incorrect. The proper expansion of "Ceph OSD" is "object - storage device". In contrast, :term:`Ceph OSD Daemon` refers to - :ref:`\``ceph-osd```, not to "**O**\bject - **S**\torage **D**\evice". + Probably :term:`Ceph Object Storage Daemon`, but not + necessarily. Sometimes (especially in older correspondence, and + especially in documentation that is not specifically written + for Ceph), "OSD" means "**O**\bject **S**\torage **D**\evice", + which refers to a physical or logical storage unit (for + example: LUN). The Ceph community has always used the term + "OSD" to refer to :term:`Ceph OSD Daemon` despite an industry + push in the mid-2010s to insist that "OSD" should refer to + "Object Storage Device", so it is important to know which + meaning is intended. OSD fsid This is a unique identifier used to further improve the -- 2.39.5