X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pvesm.adoc;h=00f3d7ad9942ae788d8564df79c12d82d976d85f;hb=0ad30983a09bdd00a6dd5e088126995ccbde8efb;hp=bc7a61ace5c3c44cbe26529c438279f747c3b055;hpb=db7f877067e2c82b91a9b55b8f8ed3912825cc66;p=pve-docs.git diff --git a/pvesm.adoc b/pvesm.adoc index bc7a61a..00f3d7a 100644 --- a/pvesm.adoc +++ b/pvesm.adoc @@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ Storage Types There are basically two different classes of storage types: +File level storage:: + +File level based storage technologies allow access to a full featured (POSIX) +file system. They are in general more flexible than any Block level storage +(see below), and allow you to store content of any type. ZFS is probably the +most advanced system, and it has full support for snapshots and clones. + Block level storage:: Allows to store large 'raw' images. It is usually not possible to store @@ -56,13 +63,6 @@ block level storage implementations support snapshots and clones. RADOS, Sheepdog and GlusterFS are distributed systems, replicating storage data to different nodes. -File level storage:: - -They allow access to a full featured (POSIX) file system. They are -more flexible, and allows you to store any content type. ZFS is -probably the most advanced system, and it has full support for -snapshots and clones. - .Available storage types [width="100%",cols="