From: freestorm77 <freestorm77@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:49:03 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: doc_reformat_configuration.txt
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doc_reformat_configuration.txt


- Added heading format begining and ending by "=="
- Added Index
- Added Title

Note: No change are made in paragraphs content
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diff --git a/docs/architecture.txt b/docs/architecture.txt
index 252d7d0f..c0eb8611 100644
--- a/docs/architecture.txt
+++ b/docs/architecture.txt
@@ -1,20 +1,10 @@
-= Tahoe-LAFS Architecture =
 
-2.  The Key-Value Store
-3.  File Encoding
-4.  Capabilities
-5.  Server Selection
-6.  Swarming Download, Trickling Upload
-7.  The Filesystem Layer
-8.  Leases, Refreshing, Garbage Collection
-9.  File Repairer
-10. Security
-11. Reliability
-
-== Overview  ==
+   Tahoe-LAFS Architecture
 
 (See the docs/specifications directory for more details.)
 
+OVERVIEW
+
 There are three layers: the key-value store, the filesystem, and the
 application.
 
@@ -41,7 +31,7 @@ There are several other applications built on top of the Tahoe-LAFS
 filesystem (see the RelatedProjects page of the wiki for a list).
 
 
-== The Key-Value Store ==
+THE KEY-VALUE STORE
 
 The key-value store is implemented by a grid of Tahoe-LAFS storage servers --
 user-space processes. Tahoe-LAFS storage clients communicate with the storage
@@ -74,7 +64,7 @@ For future releases, we have plans to decentralize introduction, allowing any
 server to tell a new client about all the others.
 
 
-== File Encoding ==
+FILE ENCODING
 
 When a client stores a file on the grid, it first encrypts the file. It then
 breaks the encrypted file into small segments, in order to reduce the memory
@@ -115,7 +105,7 @@ turn them into segments of ciphertext, use the decryption key to convert that
 into plaintext, then emit the plaintext bytes to the output target.
 
 
-== Capabilities ==
+CAPABILITIES
 
 Capabilities to immutable files represent a specific set of bytes. Think of
 it like a hash function: you feed in a bunch of bytes, and you get out a
@@ -147,7 +137,7 @@ filesystem layer (described below) adds human-meaningful names atop the
 key-value layer.
 
 
-== Server Selection ==
+SERVER SELECTION
 
 When a file is uploaded, the encoded shares are sent to some servers. But to
 which ones? The "server selection" algorithm is used to make this choice.
@@ -248,7 +238,7 @@ servers.)
   long-term connections, at the expense of complexity and latency.
 
 
-== Swarming Download, Trickling Upload ==
+SWARMING DOWNLOAD, TRICKLING UPLOAD
 
 Because the shares being downloaded are distributed across a large number of
 nodes, the download process will pull from many of them at the same time. The
@@ -279,7 +269,7 @@ in the same facility, so the helper-to-storage-server bandwidth is huge.
 See "helper.txt" for details about the upload helper.
 
 
-== The Filesystem Layer ==
+THE FILESYSTEM LAYER
 
 The "filesystem" layer is responsible for mapping human-meaningful pathnames
 (directories and filenames) to pieces of data. The actual bytes inside these
@@ -309,7 +299,7 @@ links to spaces that are shared with specific other users, and other spaces
 that are globally visible.
 
 
-== Leases, Refreshing, Garbage Collection ==
+LEASES, REFRESHING, GARBAGE COLLECTION
 
 When a file or directory in the virtual filesystem is no longer referenced,
 the space that its shares occupied on each storage server can be freed,
@@ -330,7 +320,7 @@ See docs/garbage-collection.txt for further information, and how to configure
 garbage collection.
 
 
-== File Repairer ==
+FILE REPAIRER
 
 Shares may go away because the storage server hosting them has suffered a
 failure: either temporary downtime (affecting availability of the file), or a
@@ -387,7 +377,7 @@ to other nodes.
   in client behavior.
 
 
-== Security ==
+SECURITY
 
 The design goal for this project is that an attacker may be able to deny
 service (i.e. prevent you from recovering a file that was uploaded earlier)
@@ -451,7 +441,7 @@ normal web site, using username and password to give a user access to her
 capabilities).
 
 
-== Reliability ==
+RELIABILITY
 
 File encoding and peer-node selection parameters can be adjusted to achieve
 different goals. Each choice results in a number of properties; there are