From d892c56c1d0b1de466ee4cf4071ab7b722808c00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vikas Gorur Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:57:42 -0700 Subject: Revised README Signed-off-by: Anand V. Avati --- README | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 8c6cb42ce..15b1b4a88 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,9 +1,11 @@ -GlusterFS is a powerful network/cluster filesystem. Posix compliant. You -can keep scaling your storage beyond peta bytes as your demand increases. +GlusterFS is a flexible, powerful, POSIX-compliant cluster filesystem +that can scale to several petabytes. -GlusterFS natively supports Infiniband verbs calls to do RDMA between remote -machine to get the maximum I/O throughput. +GlusterFS works over either TCP/IP or high-performance Infiniband RDMA +interconnect. -It has on the fly replication and striping as inbuilt options. +GlusterFS provides striping and on-the-fly synchronous replication +of files. GlusterFS has a fully distributed design, with no +single point of failure. Please visit http://www.gluster.org/glusterfs.php for more info. -- cgit