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doc/glossary: Add "OMAP" to glossary
Add an entry for "OMAP" to the glossary. This commit represents only the first improvement to the documentation of OMAP in the Ceph docs suite. Signed-off-by: Zac Dover <[email protected]>
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Object Storage Device
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See :term:`OSD`.
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OMAP
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"object map". A key-value store (a database) that is used to
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reduce the time it takes to read data from and to write to the
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Ceph cluster. RGW bucket indexes are stored as OMAPs.
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Erasure-coded pools cannot store RADOS OMAP data structures.
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Run the command ``ceph osd df`` to see your OMAPs.
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See Eleanor Cawthon's 2012 paper `A Distributed Key-Value Store
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using Ceph
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<https://ceph.io/assets/pdfs/CawthonKeyValueStore.pdf>`_ (17
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OSD
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Probably :term:`Ceph OSD`, but not necessarily. Sometimes
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(especially in older correspondence, and especially in

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