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| author | IkiWiki <ikiwiki.info> | 2019-01-26 10:06:50 -0500 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2019-01-26 21:41:48 +0100 |
| commit | a9d8906c6a341742a5ec686d78d4fe66e9cfd58b (patch) | |
| tree | 2999da22c4f35549f1aeb960f4f8197d205852d6 | |
| parent | 56e4ff87fcdcba7208fcd0ac6d04a57088efac61 (diff) | |
I added a few more sentences to the libstore page.
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/libstore.mdwn | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/libstore.mdwn b/hurd/libstore.mdwn index 45fc0860..7cdadc1e 100644 --- a/hurd/libstore.mdwn +++ b/hurd/libstore.mdwn @@ -9,8 +9,11 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] -`libstore` is used to provide a generic interface to access data (read/write) -on backing stores. +`libstore` is used to provide a generic interface to access data (read/write) on +backing stores. This library implements many different backends which allow the +abstract store interface to be used with common types of storage -- devices, +files, memory, tasks, etc. It also allows stores to be combined and filtered in +various ways. It more than just a thin layer between [[GNU Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] devices (`hd0` for example) and the device node below `/dev/`... |