[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovsdb.7: Clarify description of OVSDB.

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Thu Apr 26 16:39:37 UTC 2018


A reader reported that "network database system" made it sound like OVSDB
was specialized for databases about networks.  It's not, it's just
accessible over the network.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
---
 Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst b/Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst
index dc5745f8c85a..bcdcd717aebd 100644
--- a/Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst
+++ b/Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst
@@ -30,12 +30,11 @@ ovsdb
 Description
 ===========
 
-OVSDB, the Open vSwitch Database, is a network database system.  Schemas in
-OVSDB specify the tables in a database and their columns' types and can
-include data, uniqueness, and referential integrity constraints.  OVSDB
-offers atomic, consistent, isolated, durable transactions.  RFC 7047
-specifies the JSON-RPC based protocol that OVSDB clients and servers use to
-communicate.
+OVSDB, the Open vSwitch Database, is a network-accessible database system.
+Schemas in OVSDB specify the tables in a database and their columns' types and
+can include data, uniqueness, and referential integrity constraints.  OVSDB
+offers atomic, consistent, isolated, durable transactions.  RFC 7047 specifies
+the JSON-RPC based protocol that OVSDB clients and servers use to communicate.
 
 The OVSDB protocol is well suited for state synchronization because it
 allows each client to monitor the contents of a whole database or a subset
-- 
2.16.1



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