Hi ceph, I dump the transactions during putting a file (the size is 1M ) into ceph, below is what I got for locat_t to store pg log and set infos. I add some contents to see what the bufferlist has. my understand for these four ops is: op 0 is used to store the pglog; op 1 is used to store epoch and pginfo; op 2 is used to rm the trimmed pglog key(although it is empty in my example); op 3 is used to set pglog. Is my understanding right? Here are some more questions: 1 why we need to store epoch and pginfo, isn't pglog enough to track all the changes? 2 seems op 0 and op 3 is the same, isn't it? 3 I find the value of big info in leveldb is always zero, then why we set this key? [root@ceph_node0 ~]# ceph-kvstore-tool /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-1/current/omap/ get _USER_0000000000000001_USER_ 0.3c_biginfo (_USER_0000000000000001_USER_, 0.3c_biginfo) 0000 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 : ............ --------------------------------------------------------------------- transaction dump for local_t: { "osr": "0.35", "seq": 3669463, "trans_num": 0, "ops": [ { "op_num": 0, "op_name": "omap_setkeys", "collection": "meta", "oid": "5172dfbb\/pglog_0.35\/0\/\/-1", "attr_lens": { "0000000038.00000000000000000007": 132, "0000000038.00000000000000000007": "buffer::list(len=132,\n\tbuffer::ptr(0~4 0x8ed5000 in raw 0x8ed5000 len 4096 nref 4),\n\tbuffer::ptr(0~124 0x9168000 in raw 0x9168000 len 496 nref 2),\n\tbuffer::ptr(4~4 0x8ed5004 in raw 0x8ed5000 len 4096 nref 4)\n)"}}, { "op_num": 1, "op_name": "omap_setkeys", "collection": "meta", "oid": "16ef7597\/infos\/head\/\/-1", "attr_lens": { "0.35_epoch": 4, "0.35_epoch": "buffer::list(len=4,\n\tbuffer::ptr(0~4 0x8f24000 in raw 0x8f24000 len 4096 nref 2)\n)", "0.35_info": 568, "0.35_info": "buffer::list(len=568,\n\tbuffer::ptr(0~568 0x4cae000 in raw 0x4cae000 len 4096 nref 2)\n)"}}, { "op_num": 2, "op_name": "omap_rmkeys", "collection": "meta", "oid": "5172dfbb\/pglog_0.35\/0\/\/-1", "keys": ""}, { "op_num": 3, "op_name": "omap_setkeys", "collection": "meta", "oid": "5172dfbb\/pglog_0.35\/0\/\/-1", "attr_lens": { "0000000038.00000000000000000007": 132, "0000000038.00000000000000000007": "buffer::list(len=132,\n\tbuffer::ptr(0~4 0x916ec00 in raw 0x916ec00 len 496 nref 4),\n\tbuffer::ptr(0~124 0x916f600 in raw 0x916f600 len 496 nref 2),\n\tbuffer::ptr(4~4 0x916ec04 in raw 0x916ec00 len 496 nref 4)\n)"}}]}, -- 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