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Warn about ambiguities on "client" and "gateway" terms
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@ -45,7 +45,15 @@ Here's how it works:
A "storage grid" is made up of a number of storage servers. A storage server
has direct attached storage (typically one or more hard disks). A "gateway"
uses the storage servers and provides access to the filesystem over HTTP(S)
or (S)FTP.
or (S)FTP to tahoe clients.
Note that you can find gateway nodes referred sometimes as client nodes. The
Tahoe-LAFS architecture defines gateways as "nodes that provide access to
files residing in storage nodes". You can see "clients" also referring to
processes or programs connecting to a gateway node and performing operations
on the grid (for exemple, the CLI binary).
Gateways give access to files in the grid via protocols such as HTTP, FTP or
SFTP. So, the gateways act as "clients" to other storage nodes at the same
time that they are serving files to client programs (WebUI, (S)FTP clients).
Users do not rely on storage servers to provide *confidentiality* nor
*integrity* for their data -- instead all of the data is encrypted and