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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> | 2018-04-26 09:39:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> | 2018-04-26 09:41:53 -0700 |
| commit | fad594911cadf7811173a1a590747c67eebd9265 (patch) | |
| tree | 08bbc7fa4885cf1935ed84c364ec0bced3d07998 /Documentation/ref | |
| parent | e71ed35b5ed91f45643942b136dc26a6881d00cc (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-fad594911cadf7811173a1a590747c67eebd9265.tar.gz | |
ovsdb.7: Clarify description of OVSDB.
A reader reported that "network database system" made it sound like OVSDB
was specialized for databases about networks. It's not, it's just
accessible over the network.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@ovn.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ref')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst b/Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst index dc5745f8c..bcdcd717a 100644 --- a/Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst +++ b/Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst @@ -30,12 +30,11 @@ ovsdb Description =========== -OVSDB, the Open vSwitch Database, is a network database system. Schemas in -OVSDB specify the tables in a database and their columns' types and can -include data, uniqueness, and referential integrity constraints. OVSDB -offers atomic, consistent, isolated, durable transactions. RFC 7047 -specifies the JSON-RPC based protocol that OVSDB clients and servers use to -communicate. +OVSDB, the Open vSwitch Database, is a network-accessible database system. +Schemas in OVSDB specify the tables in a database and their columns' types and +can include data, uniqueness, and referential integrity constraints. OVSDB +offers atomic, consistent, isolated, durable transactions. RFC 7047 specifies +the JSON-RPC based protocol that OVSDB clients and servers use to communicate. The OVSDB protocol is well suited for state synchronization because it allows each client to monitor the contents of a whole database or a subset |