[OAK-4138] Decouple revision cleanup from the flush thread

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Segment Tar 0.0.14
• Component/s: segment-tar
• Labels: resilience
• Epic Link: Improve SegmentMK resilience
• Assignee: Michael Dürig
• Reporter: Michael Dürig
• Created: 21/Mar/16 16:15
• Updated: 10/Oct/16 11:32
• Resolved: 06/Oct/16 09:08

Description

I suggest we decouple revision cleanup from the flush thread. With large repositories where cleanup can take several minutes to complete it blocks the flush thread from updating the journal and the persisted head thus resulting in larger then necessary data loss in case of a crash.

/cc alex.parvulescu