From: Zooko O'Whielacronx Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:41:12 +0000 (-0700) Subject: docs: a couple of minor edits to NEWS and docs/architecture.txt X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-1.5.0~19 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/components/%22news.html//%22?a=commitdiff_plain;h=abd2ff6ba52cfd8d183180c1ea8e51494cb9a056;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git docs: a couple of minor edits to NEWS and docs/architecture.txt --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4bf543cb..70781631 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ This version of Tahoe will tolerate directory entries that contain filecap formats which it does not recognize: files and directories from the future. Previous versions would fail badly, preventing the user from seeing or editing anything else in those directories. These unrecognized objects can be -renamed and deleted, but obviously not read or written. This should improve -the user experience when we add new cap formats in the future. (#683) +renamed and deleted, but obviously not read or written. Also they cannot be +copied. This should improve the user experience when we add new cap formats in +the future. (#683) ** Bugfixes diff --git a/docs/architecture.txt b/docs/architecture.txt index a9a225b0..6df0e09e 100644 --- a/docs/architecture.txt +++ b/docs/architecture.txt @@ -6,12 +6,12 @@ OVERVIEW At a high-level this system consists of three layers: the grid, the filesystem, and the application. -The lowest layer is the "grid", a mapping from capabilities to data. -The capabilities are relatively short ascii strings, each used as a -reference to an arbitrary-length sequence of data bytes, and are like a -URI for that data. This data is encrypted and distributed across a -number of nodes, such that it will survive the loss of most of the -nodes. +The lowest layer is the "grid", a key-value store mapping from +capabilities to data. The capabilities are relatively short ascii +strings, each used as a reference to an arbitrary-length sequence of +data bytes, and are like a URI for that data. This data is encrypted and +distributed across a number of nodes, such that it will survive the loss +of most of the nodes. The middle layer is the decentralized filesystem: a directed graph in which the intermediate nodes are directories and the leaf nodes are