[OAK-7157] Minimize the amount of generations retained by the Cold Standby

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.0, 1.10.0, 1.8.1
• Component/s: segment-tar
• Assignee: Francesco Mari
• Reporter: Francesco Mari
• Created: 15/Jan/18 13:56
• Updated: 26/Jun/19 08:46
• Resolved: 16/Jan/18 15:43

Description

The standby should be able to work while retaining only one full generation. Since the standby only guarantees the availability of the latest head state from the primary, no functionality should be impacted if only the latest full generation is retained.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: OAK-7158 Users shouldn't be able to change the number of retained generations
• is depended upon by: OAK-7132 SNFE after full compaction