From: pataquets Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 16:25:45 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Warn about ambiguities on "client" and "gateway" terms X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-1.10.1a1~207^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/%5B/%5D%20/uri/%22file:/reedownlee?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F73%2Fhead;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git Warn about ambiguities on "client" and "gateway" terms --- diff --git a/docs/about.rst b/docs/about.rst index c9594e27..f11906eb 100644 --- a/docs/about.rst +++ b/docs/about.rst @@ -45,7 +45,15 @@ Here's how it works: A "storage grid" is made up of a number of storage servers. A storage server has direct attached storage (typically one or more hard disks). A "gateway" uses the storage servers and provides access to the filesystem over HTTP(S) -or (S)FTP. +or (S)FTP to tahoe clients. +Note that you can find gateway nodes referred sometimes as client nodes. The +Tahoe-LAFS architecture defines gateways as "nodes that provide access to +files residing in storage nodes". You can see "clients" also referring to +processes or programs connecting to a gateway node and performing operations +on the grid (for exemple, the CLI binary). +Gateways give access to files in the grid via protocols such as HTTP, FTP or +SFTP. So, the gateways act as "clients" to other storage nodes at the same +time that they are serving files to client programs (WebUI, (S)FTP clients). Users do not rely on storage servers to provide *confidentiality* nor *integrity* for their data -- instead all of the data is encrypted and