X-Git-Url: https://code.grnet.gr/git/snf-image-creator/blobdiff_plain/afdddc8dcc2efbb7f3d393e3a9d59cc2817ead35..d7a0de810cdae91f6d4e6650bf5d00f50ad3bf4e:/docs/overview.rst diff --git a/docs/overview.rst b/docs/overview.rst index 1286a8c..0d57e0e 100644 --- a/docs/overview.rst +++ b/docs/overview.rst @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Overview ^^^^^^^^ snf-image-creator is a simple command-line tool for creating OS images. The -original media, the image is created from, can be a block device, a regular -file that represents a hard disk or a host system itself. +original media the image is created from, can be a block device, a regular +file that represents a hard disk or the host system itself. Snapshotting ============ @@ -30,11 +30,12 @@ Creation The program can either dump the image file locally or use `./kamaki `_ to directly upload and register it on a `Synnefo `_ -deployment. +deployment as private or public image. Image Format ============ -The extracted images are in diskdump format. This is the recommended format for +The extracted images are in diskdump format, which is a raw dump of a disk +device (or file). This is the recommended format for `snf-image `_, the Ganeti OS Definition used by `Synnefo `_.