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diff --git a/rst/about.rst b/rst/about.rst index bef3684..d3fc8a5 100644 --- a/rst/about.rst +++ b/rst/about.rst @@ -4,13 +4,15 @@ About S3QL ============ -S3QL is a file system that stores all its data online. It supports -`Amazon S3 <http://aws.amazon.com/s3 Amazon S3>`_ as well as arbitrary -SFTP servers and effectively provides you with a hard disk of dynamic, -infinite capacity that can be accessed from any computer with internet -access. - -S3QL is providing a standard, full featured UNIX file system that is +S3QL is a file system that stores all its data online using storage +services like `Google Storage +<http://code.google.com/apis/storage/>`_, `Amazon S3 +<http://aws.amazon.com/s3 Amazon S3>`_ or `OpenStack +<http://openstack.org/projects/storage/>`_. S3QL effectively provides +a hard disk of dynamic, infinite capacity that can be accessed from +any computer with internet access. + +S3QL is a standard conforming, full featured UNIX file system that is conceptually indistinguishable from any local file system. Furthermore, S3QL has additional features like compression, encryption, data de-duplication, immutable trees and snapshotting |