From: Daira Hopwood Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:34:30 +0000 (+0000) Subject: docs/garbage-collection.rst: update text for leasedb changes. X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/%5B/frontends//%22news.html/%22?a=commitdiff_plain;h=40028c197388928e948a806995f7102882020ffc;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git docs/garbage-collection.rst: update text for leasedb changes. Signed-off-by: David-Sarah Hopwood --- diff --git a/docs/garbage-collection.rst b/docs/garbage-collection.rst index ad61d231..3e8b4e5d 100644 --- a/docs/garbage-collection.rst +++ b/docs/garbage-collection.rst @@ -218,24 +218,20 @@ The ``tahoe.cfg`` file uses the following keys to control lease expiration: Expiration Progress =================== -In the current release, leases are stored as metadata in each share file, and -no separate database is maintained. As a result, checking and expiring leases -on a large server may require multiple reads from each of several million -share files. This process can take a long time and be very disk-intensive, so -a "share crawler" is used. The crawler limits the amount of time looking at -shares to a reasonable percentage of the storage server's overall usage: by -default it uses no more than 10% CPU, and yields to other code after 100ms. A -typical server with 1.1M shares was observed to take 3.5 days to perform this -rate-limited crawl through the whole set of shares, with expiration disabled. -It is expected to take perhaps 4 or 5 days to do the crawl with expiration -turned on. +As of Tahoe-LAFS v1.11.0, leases are stored in a database that can be queried +and updated quickly, rather than in share files. However, an "accounting +crawler" is still needed to discover shares when upgrading from a previous +version, and to actually delete expired shares. The crawler limits the amount +of time looking at shares to a reasonable percentage of the storage server's +overall usage: by default it uses no more than 10% CPU, and yields to other +code after 100ms. The crawler's status is displayed on the "Storage Server Status Page", a web page dedicated to the storage server. This page resides at $NODEURL/storage, -and there is a link to it from the front "welcome" page. The "Lease -Expiration crawler" section of the status page shows the progress of the -current crawler cycle, expected completion time, amount of space recovered, -and details of how many shares have been examined. +and there is a link to it from the front "welcome" page. The "Accounting +Crawler" section of the status page shows the progress of the current crawler +cycle, expected completion time, amount of space recovered, and details of how +many shares have been examined. The crawler's state is persistent: restarting the node will not cause it to lose significant progress. The state file is located in two files @@ -275,19 +271,12 @@ nevertheless be consuming extra disk space (and might be charged or otherwise held accountable for it) until the ex-file's leases finally expire on their own. -In the current release, these leases are each associated with a single "node -secret" (stored in $BASEDIR/private/secret), which is used to generate -renewal-secrets for each lease. Two nodes with different secrets -will produce separate leases, and will not be able to renew each -others' leases. - -Once the Accounting project is in place, leases will be scoped by a -sub-delegatable "account id" instead of a node secret, so clients will be able -to manage multiple leases per file. In addition, servers will be able to -identify which shares are leased by which clients, so that clients can safely -reconcile their idea of which files/directories are active against the -server's list, and explicitly cancel leases on objects that aren't on the -active list. +Once more of the Accounting project has been implemented, leases will be +scoped by an "account id", and clients will be able to manage multiple +leases per file. In addition, servers will be able to identify which shares +are leased by which clients, so that clients can safely reconcile their +idea of which files/directories are active against the server's list, and +explicitly cancel leases on objects that aren't on the active list. By reducing the size of the "lease scope", the coordination problem is made easier. In general, mark-and-sweep is easier to implement (it requires mere