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authorQiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>2018-01-04 13:43:33 +0800
committerQiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>2018-01-05 11:59:39 +0800
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This patch creates initial code repo. For ceph, luminous stable release will be used for base code, and next changes and optimization for ceph will be added to it. For opensds, currently any changes can be upstreamed into original opensds repo (https://github.com/opensds/opensds), and so stor4nfv will directly clone opensds code to deploy stor4nfv environment. And the scripts for deployment based on ceph and opensds will be put into 'ci' directory. Change-Id: I46a32218884c75dda2936337604ff03c554648e4 Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
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+MDS internal data structures
+==============================
+
+*CInode*
+ CInode contains the metadata of a file, there is one CInode for each file.
+ The CInode stores information like who owns the file, how big the file is.
+
+*CDentry*
+ CDentry is the glue that holds inodes and files together by relating inode to
+ file/directory names. A CDentry links to at most one CInode (it may not link
+ to any CInode). A CInode may be linked by multiple CDentries.
+
+*CDir*
+ CDir only exists for directory inode, it's used to link CDentries under the
+ directory. A CInode can have multiple CDir when the directory is fragmented.
+
+These data structures are linked together as::
+
+ CInode
+ CDir
+ | \
+ | \
+ | \
+ CDentry CDentry
+ CInode CInode
+ CDir CDir
+ | | \
+ | | \
+ | | \
+ CDentry CDentry CDentry
+ CInode CInode CInode
+
+As this doc is being written, size of CInode is about 1400 bytes, size of CDentry
+is about 400 bytes, size of CDir is about 700 bytes. These data structures are
+quite large. Please be careful if you want to add new fields to them.
+