On 2019-12-04 12:47 p.m., Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On 2019-12-04 10:03 a.m., Andreas Dilger wrote:
>>> Here is a pretty picture to get started:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/danielbot/Shardmap/wiki/Shardmap-media-format
>>
>> The shardmap diagram is good conceptually, but it would be useful
>> to add a legend on the empty side of the diagram that shows the on-disk
>> structures.
>
> Sounds good, but not sure exactly what you had in mind. Fields of a
> shard entry? Fields of the block 0 header? The record entry block has
> its own diagram, and is polymorphic anyway, so no fixed format.
Ah, the legend can explain that lower tier shard 2 is in process of
being split into upper tier shards 4 and 5, and label the shards
with offset numbers.