On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Mete Atamel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/6/12 9:24 AM, "Thomas Mueller" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Yes. Somebody has to decide which revisions are no longer needed. Luckily >>it doesn't need to be us :-) We might set a default value (10 minutes or >>so), and then give the user the ability to change that, depending on >>whether he cares more about disk space or the ability to read old data / >>roll back to an old state. > > If we go down this path for node GC, doesn't MicroKernel interface have to > change to account for this? Where would you change this default 10 minutes > value as far as MicroKernel is concerned?
there's a jira issue [0]. so far we've not been able to resolve this issue. there's no single 'right' retention policy as different use cases imply different strategies. personally i tend to not specify a retention policy on the API level but rather leave it implementation specific (configurable). cheers stefan [0[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-114 > > -MEte >
