Hi, Sage pgmeta object is a meta-object (like __head_00000000__2) without significant information. It is created when in PG::_init() when handling pg_create and split_coll and always exits there during pg's life cycle until pg is removed in RemoveWQ. The real content related to pgmeta-data is stored in omap. we may just treat pgmeta-object as a logical object and not present it physically so that we can avoid recursive searching object path by if(hoid.pgmeta())? such as: int FileStore::_omap_setkeys(coll_t cid, const ghobject_t &hoid, const map<string, bufferlist> &aset, const SequencerPosition &spos) { dout(15) << __func__ << " " << cid << "/" << hoid << dendl; Index index; int r; if(hoid.pgmeta()) goto out; *** *** *** out: r = object_map->set_keys(hoid, aset, &spos); dout(20) << __func__ << " " << cid << "/" << hoid << " = " << r << dendl; return r; } Regards Ning Yao -- 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