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diff --git a/system/s3ql/README b/system/s3ql/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..279967cf04 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/s3ql/README @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +s3ql: S3QL is a file system that stores all its data online using storage +s3ql: services like Google Storage, Amazon S3, or OpenStack. S3QL +s3ql: effectively provides a hard disk of dynamic, infinite capacity that +s3ql: can be accessed from any computer with internet access running +Linux, FreeBSD or OS-X. + +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 which make it especially +suitable for online backup and archival. + +S3QL is designed to favor simplicity and elegance over performance and +feature-creep. Care has been taken to make the source code as readable and +serviceable as possible. Solid error detection and error handling have +been included from the very first line, and S3QL comes with extensive +automated test cases for all its components. |