[sheepdog] [PATCH FOR gh-pages] homepage: update introduction

Liu Yuan namei.unix at gmail.com
Thu Oct 24 09:09:05 CEST 2013


Signed-off-by: Liu Yuan <namei.unix at gmail.com>
---
 _sources/index.txt |   20 ++++++++++++++------
 index.html         |   18 +++++++++++++-----
 searchindex.js     |    2 +-
 src/index.rst      |   20 ++++++++++++++------
 4 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/_sources/index.txt b/_sources/index.txt
index b87726d..c7b99c1 100644
--- a/_sources/index.txt
+++ b/_sources/index.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,20 @@
 Sheepdog Project
 ================
 
-Sheepdog is a distributed storage system for `QEMU <http://www.qemu.org/>`__.
-It provides highly available block level storage volumes
-that can be attached to QEMU virtual machines. Sheepdog scales to several
-hundreds nodes, and supports
-advanced volume management features such as snapshot, cloning, and
-thin provisioning.
+Sheepdog is a distributed object storage system for volume and container
+services and manages the disks and nodes intelligently. Sheepdog features
+ease of use, simplicity of code and can scale out to thousands of nodes.
+
+- The block level volume abstraction can be attached  to
+  `QEMU <http://www.qemu.org/>`__ virtual machines and supports
+  advanced volume management features such as snapshot, cloning, and
+  thin provisioning.
+
+- The object level container abstraction is designed to be
+  `Openstack Swift <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Swift>`__ and
+  `Amazon S3 <http://aws.amazon.com/s3/>`__ API compatible and can be used to
+  store and retrieve any amount of data with a simple web services
+  interface.
 
 .. figure:: overview.png
    :alt: figure of sheepdog overview
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 6dddfc5..3b51311 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -71,12 +71,20 @@
             
   <div class="section" id="sheepdog-project">
 <h1>Sheepdog Project<a class="headerlink" href="#sheepdog-project" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
-<p>Sheepdog is a distributed storage system for <a class="reference external" href="http://www.qemu.org/">QEMU</a>.
-It provides highly available block level storage volumes
-that can be attached to QEMU virtual machines. Sheepdog scales to several
-hundreds nodes, and supports
+<p>Sheepdog is a distributed object storage system for volume and container
+services and manages the disks and nodes intelligently. Sheepdog features
+ease of use, simplicity of code and can scale out to thousands of nodes.</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>The block level volume abstraction can be attached  to
+<a class="reference external" href="http://www.qemu.org/">QEMU</a> virtual machines and supports
 advanced volume management features such as snapshot, cloning, and
-thin provisioning.</p>
+thin provisioning.</li>
+<li>The object level container abstraction is designed to be
+<a class="reference external" href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Swift">Openstack Swift</a> and
+<a class="reference external" href="http://aws.amazon.com/s3/">Amazon S3</a> API compatible and can be used to
+store and retrieve any amount of data with a simple web services
+interface.</li>
+</ul>
 <div class="figure align-center">
 <a class="reference internal image-reference" href="_images/overview.png"><img alt="figure of sheepdog overview" src="_images/overview.png" style="width: 592.8px; height: 356.8px;" /></a>
 </div>
diff --git a/searchindex.js b/searchindex.js
index b132e39..21093ca 100644
--- a/searchindex.js
+++ b/searchindex.js
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Search.setIndex({objects:{},terms:{wiki:0,softwar:0,all:0,featur:0,sheepdog:0,thin:0,list:0,kong:0,miniconf:0,code:0,org:0,openstack:0,storag:0,yet:0,sever:0,highli:0,jan:0,hong:0,scale:0,develop:0,aug:0,open:0,support:0,archiv:0,system:0,virtual:0,avail:0,attach:0,version:0,listinfo:0,freenod:0,qemu:0,subscrib:0,mail:0,irc:0,clone:0,summit:0,machin:0,sourc:0,http:0,distribut:0,advanc:0,hundr:0,kvm:0,git:0,volum:0,user:0,lca:0,releas:0,mailman:0,pipermail:0,brows:0,document:0,present:0,term:0,github:0,nov:0,forum:0,level:0,gpl2:0,wpkg:0,tree:0,node:0,server:0,project:0,provid:0,slide:0,client:0,snapshot:0,can:0,anoth:0,under:0,latest:0,com:0,manag:0,block:0,provis:0},objtypes:{},titles:["Sheepdog Project"],objnames:{},filenames:["index"]})
\ No newline at end of file
+Search.setIndex({objects:{},terms:{all:0,code:0,kong:0,openstack:0,disk:0,yet:0,gpl2:0,web:0,aug:0,jan:0,present:0,under:0,mail:0,sourc:0,amazon:0,volum:0,lca:0,pipermail:0,brows:0,term:0,level:0,list:0,server:0,slide:0,swfit:[],contain:0,manag:0,wiki:0,intellig:0,design:0,out:0,compat:0,scale:0,open:0,version:0,listinfo:0,progress:[],irc:0,can:0,machin:0,kvm:0,advanc:0,releas:0,mailman:0,swift:0,forum:0,amount:0,com:0,block:0,softwar:0,sheepdog:0,api:0,org:0,storag:0,highli:[],git:0,from:[],support:0,system:0,avail:0,attach:0,interfac:0,qemu:0,subscrib:0,store:0,hundr:[],eas:0,freenod:0,miniconf:0,retriev:0,provid:[],servic:0,tree:0,project:0,thin:0,provis:0,featur:0,"abstract":0,ani:0,archiv:0,sever:[],hong:0,develop:0,anoth:0,virtual:0,summit:0,document:0,simpl:0,thousand:0,node:0,http:0,distribut:0,clone:0,object:0,user:0,wpkg:0,data:0,simplic:0,github:0,nov:0,client:0,snapshot:0,latest:0},objtypes:{},titles:["Sheepdog Project"],objnames:{},filenames:["index"]})
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/index.rst b/src/index.rst
index b87726d..c7b99c1 100644
--- a/src/index.rst
+++ b/src/index.rst
@@ -1,12 +1,20 @@
 Sheepdog Project
 ================
 
-Sheepdog is a distributed storage system for `QEMU <http://www.qemu.org/>`__.
-It provides highly available block level storage volumes
-that can be attached to QEMU virtual machines. Sheepdog scales to several
-hundreds nodes, and supports
-advanced volume management features such as snapshot, cloning, and
-thin provisioning.
+Sheepdog is a distributed object storage system for volume and container
+services and manages the disks and nodes intelligently. Sheepdog features
+ease of use, simplicity of code and can scale out to thousands of nodes.
+
+- The block level volume abstraction can be attached  to
+  `QEMU <http://www.qemu.org/>`__ virtual machines and supports
+  advanced volume management features such as snapshot, cloning, and
+  thin provisioning.
+
+- The object level container abstraction is designed to be
+  `Openstack Swift <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Swift>`__ and
+  `Amazon S3 <http://aws.amazon.com/s3/>`__ API compatible and can be used to
+  store and retrieve any amount of data with a simple web services
+  interface.
 
 .. figure:: overview.png
    :alt: figure of sheepdog overview
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