On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Henry C Chang <henry.cy.chang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I see the reason now, but is the "period" configurable? There is no such automatic period. You'll need to set up a cron job or something similar to get radosgw-admin to clean up all the craft. > Another question is: it seems the shadow object is to prevent racing > between concurrent r/w. Why do we need to keep those objects so long? > There is no way to actually know whether there are concurrent operations on an object. There can be a slow read going on an object while we write into it and we don't want that read to break. Yehuda -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html