drift async job purges drift files

Jay Shaughnessy jshaughn at redhat.com
Tue Aug 16 13:23:12 UTC 2011


Mazz, one caveat here that we may be able to take care of with a simple 
flag or expiration data or something.  We actually may want drift files 
that are not (yet) associated with drifts.  This is the whole idea 
behind seeding the db with files we expect to be reported from agents.  
For example, we know we're going to deploy bundle Foo to 100 machines.  
We may very well want to slurp that bundle into the drift backend and 
create drift files in advance, so that we never actually need to 
download them from an agent.  They'll already be there.

On 8/13/2011 10:01 AM, John Mazzitelli wrote:
> (this is probably only of interest right now for Jay and John S)
>
> I checked in code that adds to the data purge job that runs hourly. We
> now purge drift files if there are no drifts referencing it. Every hour,
> when you see the data purge job emit its log messages, if you look in
> there, you will see messages about purging drift files.
>
> This means we can clean up and reclaim space for drift files that are no
> longer used (that is, referenced as either an old or new file from any
> drift entry).
>
> This goes through the drift server plugin - if we are using the RHQ DB
> backend, we'll purge unused rows in RHQ_DRIFT_FILE. I left a TODO in the
> MongoDB plugin to do the purging when using MongoDB as the drift backend.
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