[RATIS-584] Provide an optional trigger for creating commit entries on Leader

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.4.0
• Component/s: server
• Labels: ozone
• Target Version/s: 0.4.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mukul Kumar Singh
• Created: 05/Jun/19 04:57
• Updated: 14/Jul/19 15:26

Description

Ratis currently triggers commit entry for every log entry which has been replicated. Each of these commit entries is in turn a file IO to the raft log.

For Ozone, this commit entries in the log are only needed for PutBlock requests, and this should be configurable in Ratis too.