prometheus/Documentation/format/tombstones.md
Goutham Veeramachaneni 44e9ae38b5
Incorporate PR feedback.
* Expose Stone as it is used in an exported method.
* Move from tombstoneReader to []Stone for the same reason as above.
* Make WAL reading a little cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Goutham Veeramachaneni <cs14btech11014@iith.ac.in>
2017-05-26 21:26:31 +05:30

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# Tombstones Disk Format
The following describes the format of a tombstones file, which is placed
at the top level directory of a block.
The last 8 bytes specifies the offset to the start of Stones section.
The stones section is 0 padded to a multiple of 4 for fast scans.
```
┌────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
│ magic(0x130BA30) <4b> │ version(1) <1 byte> │
├────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────┤
│ ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Tombstone 1 │ │
│ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │
│ │ ... │ │
│ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │
│ │ Tombstone N │ │
│ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │
│ │ CRC<4b> │ │
│ └──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```
# Tombstone
```
┌─────────────┬───────────────┬──────────────┐
│ref <varint> │ mint <varint> │ maxt <varint>│
└─────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────┘
```