Day: June 7, 2013

Ceph stores objects in pools which are divided in placement groups. When an object is created, modified or deleted, the placement group logs the operation. If an OSD supporting the placement group is temporarily unavailable, the logs are used for recovery when it comes back.

The column to the left shows the log entries. They are ordered, oldest first. For instance : 1,4 is epoch 1 version 4. The tail displayed to the left points to the oldest entry of the log. The head points to the most recent. The column to the right shows the olog : they are authoritative and will be merged into log which may imply to discard divergent entries. All log entries relate to an object which is represented by its hash in the column in the middle : x5, x7, x9.

The use cases implemented by PGLog::merge_log are demonstrated by individual test cases.
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