summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/net-fs
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorGuilherme Amadio <amadio@gentoo.org>2020-06-19 00:47:55 +0200
committerGuilherme Amadio <amadio@gentoo.org>2020-06-19 09:20:23 +0200
commit01658b962e162129b346f2998b2b63aa37f5861f (patch)
tree7921fa6f0ce892ca061df384199e7076be5875e6 /net-fs
parentmail-client/mutt-1.14.4: another security bump (diff)
downloadgentoo-01658b962e162129b346f2998b2b63aa37f5861f.tar.gz
gentoo-01658b962e162129b346f2998b2b63aa37f5861f.tar.bz2
gentoo-01658b962e162129b346f2998b2b63aa37f5861f.zip
net-fs/cvmfs: update long description in metadata.xml
Signed-off-by: Guilherme Amadio <amadio@gentoo.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net-fs')
-rw-r--r--net-fs/cvmfs/metadata.xml20
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net-fs/cvmfs/metadata.xml b/net-fs/cvmfs/metadata.xml
index e05f7bafa0ae..75ea4108192b 100644
--- a/net-fs/cvmfs/metadata.xml
+++ b/net-fs/cvmfs/metadata.xml
@@ -10,15 +10,17 @@
<name>Mikle Kolyada</name>
</maintainer>
<longdescription lang="en">
- The CernVM File System is a client-server file system developed to
- deliver software stacks onto virtual machines in a fast, scalable,
- and reliable way. CernVM-FS is implemented as a FUSE module. It
- makes a specially prepared directory tree stored on a web server
- look like a local read-only file system on the virtual
- machine. CernVM-FS uses outgoing HTTP connections only, thereby it
- avoids most of the firewall issues of other network file systems. It
- transfers data file by file on demand, verifying the content by
- SHA-1 keys.
+ The CernVM-File System (CernVM-FS) provides a scalable, reliable and low-
+ maintenance software distribution service. It was developed to assist High
+ Energy Physics (HEP) collaborations to deploy software on the worldwide-
+ distributed computing infrastructure used to run data processing applications.
+ CernVM-FS is implemented as a POSIX read-only file system in user space (a
+ FUSE module). Files and directories are hosted on standard web servers and
+ mounted in the universal namespace /cvmfs. Internally, CernVM-FS uses content-
+ addressable storage and Merkle trees in order to maintain file data and
+ meta-data. CernVM-FS uses outgoing HTTP connections only, thereby it avoids
+ most of the firewall issues of other network file systems. It transfers data
+ and meta-data on demand and verifies data integrity by cryptographic hashes.
</longdescription>
<use>
<flag name="aufs">Use AUFS instead of OverlayFS for the server</flag>