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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> |