Bug 840481

Summary: Incorrect description of a "Distributed Filesystem"
Product: [Red Hat Storage] Red Hat Gluster Storage Reporter: Niels de Vos <ndevos>
Component: doc-Administration_GuideAssignee: Divya <divya>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: SATHEESARAN <sasundar>
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Version: 2.0CC: asriram, mhideo, rwheeler, sasundar, storage-doc
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Description Niels de Vos 2012-07-16 13:20:21 UTC 
The description of "Distributed File System" on page 13 (http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/2.0/html-single/Administration_Guide/index.html#chap-Administration_Guide-storage_concepts) explains what a networked filesystem is. The "distributed file system" should point out that the data from the filesystem is spread over multiple servers/bricks.
Comment 1 Divya 2012-09-04 11:07:20 UTC 
Hi Niels,

Revised version is as follows:

"A file system that allows multiple clients to concurrently access data spread across multiple servers/bricks in a trusted storage pool. Sharing data is fundamental to all distributed file system."

Do let me know if you have any further comments before I update the guide with the revised version.

Thanks,
Divya
Comment 2 Niels de Vos 2012-09-04 15:41:20 UTC 
"Sharing data is fundamental to all distributed file system." is not really clear in this context. The most important part of a "distributed filesystem" is that the data is stored/retrieved from multiple servers/bricks. Maybe you can write if like something as

"Data sharing among multiple locations is fundamental to all distributed file system."

Thanks,
Niels
Comment 3 Divya 2012-09-13 12:16:49 UTC 
Updated Distributed File System description based on Niels suggestion. Updated guide is available at: http://documentation-devel.engineering.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/2.0/html/Administration_Guide/chap-Administration_Guide-storage_concepts.html
Comment 4 SATHEESARAN 2012-10-10 07:32:02 UTC 
Moving this bug to VERIFIED state