Milvus

Improvements of the Data File Cleanup Mechanism

Dec 18, 2019Yihua Mo
Improvements of the Data File Cleanup Mechanism
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This post details the previous unreliable 5-minute interval strategy for hard-deleting soft-deleted files in Milvus, which could lead to query failures or excessive disk usage. It introduces the improved strategy implemented in v0.6.0, which uses reference counting to hard-delete files only when they are no longer in use by any task. This ensures reliable deletion and efficient disk usage.

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