openstack-manuals/doc/common/section_about-object-storage.xml
Tom Fifield f9cdba79aa Fixes to common section docs
Docs on a plane returns.

A cohort of small changes, reducing cruft and improving clarity of
these common sections.

Change-Id: I11c0ee83f4b2805304bb2e84e548c0a6aeaa135e
2013-09-26 16:30:51 -05:00

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
version="5.0"
xml:id="ch_introduction-to-openstack-object-storage">
<title>Introduction to OpenStack Object Storage</title>
<para>OpenStack Object Storage is a scalable object storage system - it is not a file system in the
traditional sense. You will not be able to mount this system like traditional SAN or NAS volumes.
Since OpenStack Object Storage is a different way of thinking when it comes to storage, take a few
moments to review the key concepts in the developer documentation at
<link xlink:href="http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/">docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/</link>.</para>
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</section>