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doc: update the rados namespace docs

Reviewed-by: Casey Bodley <cbodley@redhat.com>
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liewegas authored Aug 1, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -228,10 +228,10 @@ namespace such that reads and writes by the user take place only within the
namespace. Objects written to a namespace within the pool can only be accessed
by users who have access to the namespace.

.. note:: Currently (i.e., ``firefly``), namespaces are only useful for
applications written on top of ``librados``. Ceph clients such as block
device, object storage and file system do not currently support this
feature.
.. note:: Namespaces are primarily useful for applications written on top of
``librados`` where the logical grouping can alleviate the need to create
different pools. Ceph Object Gateway (from ``luminous``) uses namespaces for various
metadata objects.

The rationale for namespaces is that pools can be a computationally expensive
method of segregating data sets for the purposes of authorizing separate sets
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