Re: RFS: ceph
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Ben Finney wrote:
> Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> writes:
>
> > Three binary packages are built:
> > ceph - server daemons, utilities
> > ceph-fuse - FUSE-based client
> > ceph-kclient-source - source for kernel client module
>
> The package description should conform to the guildelines in the
> ÿÿbest packaging practicesÿÿ in the Developer's Reference
> <URL:http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-synopsis>,
> <URL:http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-desc>.
>
> In particular, it should tell the administrator, who should be assumed
> to know *nothing* about the package, a brief answer to the question
> ÿÿwhat is this and why should I install it?ÿÿ I don't think the above
> synopses meet that.
They sure don't. Here are the short and long descriptions from
debian/control:
> Please post here the full descriptions (including the one-line
> synopsis and the long description) for each of those packages.
Package: ceph
Description: distributed file system
Ceph is a distributed network file system designed to provide
excellent performance, reliability, and scalability.
.
This package contains all server daemons and tools for creating,
running, and administering a Ceph file system.
Package: ceph-fuse
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. 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
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. This is the
Ceph client source package for building the client kernel module.
.
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.
Thanks-
sage
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