From 922c59ff10bea48ec2df5662b96a20e840e7d68b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Wilkins Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:09:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] :doc: Updated FAQ with a friendlier message. Signed-off-by: John Wilkins --- doc/faq.rst | 25 ++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/faq.rst b/doc/faq.rst index f4e97adc30c..351e396cb75 100644 --- a/doc/faq.rst +++ b/doc/faq.rst @@ -3,26 +3,25 @@ ============================ These questions have been frequently asked on the ceph-devel mailing -list, the IRC channel, and on the Ceph.com blog. +list, the IRC channel, and on the `Ceph.com`_ blog. + +.. _Ceph.com: http://ceph.com Is Ceph Production-Quality? =========================== -The definition of "production quality" varies depending on who you ask. -Because it can mean a lot of different things depending on how you want to -use Ceph, we prefer not to think of it as a binary term. - -At this point we support the RADOS object store, radosgw, and rbd because -we think they are sufficiently stable that we can handle the support -workload. There are several organizations running those parts of the -system in production. Others wouldn't dream of doing so at this stage. +Ceph's object store is production ready. Large-scale storage systems (i.e., +petabytes of data) use Ceph's block devices and Ceph's RESTful object store +supporting APIs compatible with Amazon's S3 and OpenStack's Swift. `Inktank`_ +provides commercial support for the Ceph object store, block devices, and +RESTful interfaces. The CephFS POSIX-compliant filesystem is functionally-complete and has -been evaluated by a large community of users, but has not yet been -subjected to extensive, methodical testing. +been evaluated by a large community of users, but is still undergoing +methodical QA testing. Once Ceph's filesystem passes QA muster, `Inktank`_ +will provide commercial support for CephFS in production systems. -We can tell you how we test, and what we support, but in the end it's -your judgement that matters most! +.. _Inktank: http://inktank.com How can I add a question to this list? ======================================