Staging: DST: Kconfig text update.
Kconfig help text update Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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select CONNECTOR
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---help---
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DST is a network block device storage, which can be used to organize
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exported storages on the remote nodes into the local block device.
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exported storage on the remote nodes into the local block device.
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DST works on top of any network media and protocol, it is just a matter
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DST works on top of any network media and protocol; it is just a matter
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of configuration utility to understand the correct addresses. The most
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common example is TCP over IP allows to pass through firewalls and
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created remote backup storage in the different datacenter. DST requires
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common example is TCP over IP, which allows to pass through firewalls and
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create remote backup storage in a different datacenter. DST requires
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single port to be enabled on the exporting node and outgoing connections
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on the local node.
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DST works with in-kernel client and server, which improves the performance
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eliminating unneded data copies and allows not to depend on the version
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DST works with in-kernel client and server, which improves performance by
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eliminating unneded data copies and by not depending on the version
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of the external IO components. It requires userspace configuration utility
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though.
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may be lots of in-flight transactions. When remote host does not ack
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the transaction it will be resent predefined number of times with specified
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timeouts between them. All those parameters are configurable. Transactions
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are marked as failed after all resends completed unsuccessfully, having
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are marked as failed after all resends complete unsuccessfully; having
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long enough resend timeout and/or large number of resends allows not to
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return error to the higher (FS usually) layer in case of short network
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problems or remote node outages. In case of network RAID setup this means
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DST may fully encrypt the data channel in case of untrusted channel and implement
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strong checksum of the transferred data. It is possible to configure algorithms
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and crypto keys, they should match on both sides of the network channel.
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and crypto keys; they should match on both sides of the network channel.
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Crypto processing does not introduce noticeble performance overhead, since DST
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uses configurable pool of threads to perform crypto processing.
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bool "DST debug"
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depends on DST
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---help---
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This option will turn HEAVY debugging of the DST.
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This option will enable HEAVY debugging of the DST.
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Turn it on ONLY if you have to debug some really obscure problem.
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