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authorEvgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>2009-03-27 13:04:29 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-04-17 20:06:30 +0200
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Staging: Pohmelfs: Added IO permissions and priorities.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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@@ -56,9 +56,10 @@ workloads and can fully utilize the bandwidth to the servers when doing bulk
data transfers.
POHMELFS clients operate with a working set of servers and are capable of balancing read-only
-operations (like lookups or directory listings) between them.
+operations (like lookups or directory listings) between them according to IO priorities.
Administrators can add or remove servers from the set at run-time via special commands (described
-in Documentation/pohmelfs/info.txt file). Writes are replicated to all servers.
+in Documentation/pohmelfs/info.txt file). Writes are replicated to all servers, which are connected
+with write permission turned on. IO priority and permissions can be changed in run-time.
POHMELFS is capable of full data channel encryption and/or strong crypto hashing.
One can select any kernel supported cipher, encryption mode, hash type and operation mode