docs/glossary.rst

   1 Glossary
   2 ========
   3
   4 .. glossary::
   5
   6    `Virtual machine`_
   7
   8       A Virtual machine is a program that can execute an entire
   9       operatin system inside an emulated hardware environment.
  10
  11    `Container`_
  12
  13       A Container is an isolated user space. Programs runs directly on
  14       the hosts kernel, but with limited access to the host resources.
  15
  16    Datastore
  17
  18       A place to store backups. The current implemenation is
  19       file-system based, so this refers to a directory containing the
  20       backup data.
  21
  22    `Rust`_
  23
  24       Rust is a new, fast and memory-efficient system programming
  25       language, with no runtime or garbage collector. Rust’s rich type
  26       system and ownership model guarantee memory-safety and
  27       thread-safety. I can eliminate many classes of bugs
  28       at compile-time.
  29
  30    `Sphinx`_
  31
  32       Is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and
  33       beautiful documentation. It was originally created for the
  34       Python documentation, and it has excellent facilities for the
  35       documentation of software projects in a range of languages.
  36
  37
  38
  39    `reStructuredText`_
  40
  41       Is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext
  42       markup syntax and parser system.
  43
  44    `FUSE`_
  45
  46       Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) defines an interface which allows to
  47       implement a filesystem in userspace as opposed to implementing it
  48       in the kernel. The fuse kernel driver handles filesystem requests and
  49       sends them to an userspace application for reply.
  50