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| author | V3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org> | 2020-06-21 17:50:24 +0100 |
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| committer | V3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org> | 2020-06-21 17:50:24 +0100 |
| commit | feb0daf81d888e9160f9f94502de09b66f2a63fd (patch) | |
| tree | b6e5c40ce2abef3da27ed50a023153f475e0ddef /net-fs/cvmfs/metadata.xml | |
| parent | 9452a6e87b6c2c70513bc47a2470bf9f1168920e (diff) | |
gentoo resync : 21.06.2020
Diffstat (limited to 'net-fs/cvmfs/metadata.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | net-fs/cvmfs/metadata.xml | 23 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/net-fs/cvmfs/metadata.xml b/net-fs/cvmfs/metadata.xml index e05f7bafa0ae..6d58ea9a03ae 100644 --- a/net-fs/cvmfs/metadata.xml +++ b/net-fs/cvmfs/metadata.xml @@ -10,21 +10,20 @@ <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> - <flag name="preload">Install the cvmfs cache preloader for distributed file systems</flag> <flag name="server">Install the cvmfsd program and init script</flag> - <flag name="test-programs">Install unit test programs</flag> </use> <upstream> <remote-id type="github">cvmfs/cvmfs</remote-id> |