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diff --git a/doc/merge.txt b/doc/merge.txt index 254e6fc..0b3a0d6 100644 --- a/doc/merge.txt +++ b/doc/merge.txt @@ -9,16 +9,17 @@ The merge process - merge-backup reads 'fetched' and pushes these entries to secondary merge nodes, maintaining one file per secondary, - 'backup.<secondary>', indicating which entries have been copied to + 'verified.<secondary>', indicating which entries have been copied to and verified at node <secondary>. - merge-sth writes a new 'sth' file by reading the - 'backup.<secondary>' files into a list, picking a new tree size by + 'verified.<secondary>' files into a list, picking a new tree size by sorting the list (in falling order) and indexing it with the - 'backupquorum' config option. If the new tree size is smaller than - what the old 'sth' file says, no new STH is created. + 'backup-quorum-size' config option. If the new tree size is smaller + than what the old 'sth' file says, no new STH is created. -- merge-dist distributes 'sth' and missing entries to frontend nodes. +- merge-dist distributes 'sth' and missing entries to all frontend + nodes. Merge distribution (merge_dist) ----------------------------------------------------- @@ -83,8 +84,6 @@ Merge backup (merge_backup) TODO ==== -- Run the three pieces in parallell. - - Improve merge-fetch by parallellising it using one process per storage node writing to a "queue info" file (storage-node, hash) and a single "queue handling process" reading queue files and writing to the |