[sheepdog] [PATCH gh-pages v2] homepage: update introduction

Liu Yuan namei.unix at gmail.com
Thu Oct 24 09:34:41 CEST 2013


Signed-off-by: Liu Yuan <namei.unix at gmail.com>
---
 - add scsi tgt to volume

 _sources/index.txt |   21 +++++++++++++++------
 index.html         |   19 ++++++++++++++-----
 src/index.rst      |   21 +++++++++++++++------
 4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/_sources/index.txt b/_sources/index.txt
index b87726d..5d799e1 100644
--- a/_sources/index.txt
+++ b/_sources/index.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,21 @@
 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
+  `Linux SCSI Target <http://stgt.sourceforge.net/>`__ 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..4254969 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -71,12 +71,21 @@
             
   <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
+<a class="reference external" href="http://stgt.sourceforge.net/">Linux SCSI Target</a> 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/src/index.rst b/src/index.rst
index b87726d..5d799e1 100644
--- a/src/index.rst
+++ b/src/index.rst
@@ -1,12 +1,21 @@
 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
+  `Linux SCSI Target <http://stgt.sourceforge.net/>`__ 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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