Notice

This document is for a development version of Ceph.

Librados (C)

librados provides low-level access to the RADOS service. For an overview of RADOS, see Architecture.

Example: connecting and writing an object

To use Librados, you instantiate a rados_t variable (a cluster handle) and call rados_create() with a pointer to it:

int err;
rados_t cluster;

err = rados_create(&cluster, NULL);
if (err < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "%s: cannot create a cluster handle: %s\n", argv[0], strerror(-err));
        exit(1);
}

Then you configure your rados_t to connect to your cluster, either by setting individual values (rados_conf_set()), using a configuration file (rados_conf_read_file()), using command line options (rados_conf_parse_argv()), or an environment variable (rados_conf_parse_env()):

err = rados_conf_read_file(cluster, "/path/to/myceph.conf");
if (err < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "%s: cannot read config file: %s\n", argv[0], strerror(-err));
        exit(1);
}

Once the cluster handle is configured, you can connect to the cluster with rados_connect():

err = rados_connect(cluster);
if (err < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "%s: cannot connect to cluster: %s\n", argv[0], strerror(-err));
        exit(1);
}

Then you open an “IO context”, a rados_ioctx_t, with rados_ioctx_create():

rados_ioctx_t io;
char *poolname = "mypool";

err = rados_ioctx_create(cluster, poolname, &io);
if (err < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "%s: cannot open rados pool %s: %s\n", argv[0], poolname, strerror(-err));
        rados_shutdown(cluster);
        exit(1);
}

Note that the pool you try to access must exist.

Then you can use the RADOS data manipulation functions, for example write into an object called greeting with rados_write_full():

err = rados_write_full(io, "greeting", "hello", 5);
if (err < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "%s: cannot write pool %s: %s\n", argv[0], poolname, strerror(-err));
        rados_ioctx_destroy(io);
        rados_shutdown(cluster);
        exit(1);
}

In the end, you will want to close your IO context and connection to RADOS with rados_ioctx_destroy() and rados_shutdown():

rados_ioctx_destroy(io);
rados_shutdown(cluster);

Asynchronous IO

When doing lots of IO, you often don’t need to wait for one operation to complete before starting the next one. Librados provides asynchronous versions of several operations:

For each operation, you must first create a rados_completion_t that represents what to do when the operation is safe or complete by calling rados_aio_create_completion(). If you don’t need anything special to happen, you can pass NULL:

rados_completion_t comp;
err = rados_aio_create_completion(NULL, NULL, NULL, &comp);
if (err < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "%s: could not create aio completion: %s\n", argv[0], strerror(-err));
        rados_ioctx_destroy(io);
        rados_shutdown(cluster);
        exit(1);
}

Now you can call any of the aio operations, and wait for it to be in memory or on disk on all replicas:

err = rados_aio_write(io, "foo", comp, "bar", 3, 0);
if (err < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "%s: could not schedule aio write: %s\n", argv[0], strerror(-err));
        rados_aio_release(comp);
        rados_ioctx_destroy(io);
        rados_shutdown(cluster);
        exit(1);
}
rados_aio_wait_for_complete(comp); // in memory
rados_aio_wait_for_safe(comp); // on disk

Finally, we need to free the memory used by the completion with rados_aio_release():

rados_aio_release(comp);

You can use the callbacks to tell your application when writes are durable, or when read buffers are full. For example, if you wanted to measure the latency of each operation when appending to several objects, you could schedule several writes and store the ack and commit time in the corresponding callback, then wait for all of them to complete using rados_aio_flush() before analyzing the latencies:

typedef struct {
        struct timeval start;
        struct timeval ack_end;
        struct timeval commit_end;
} req_duration;

void ack_callback(rados_completion_t comp, void *arg) {
        req_duration *dur = (req_duration *) arg;
        gettimeofday(&dur->ack_end, NULL);
}

void commit_callback(rados_completion_t comp, void *arg) {
        req_duration *dur = (req_duration *) arg;
        gettimeofday(&dur->commit_end, NULL);
}

int output_append_latency(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *data, size_t len, size_t num_writes) {
        req_duration times[num_writes];
        rados_completion_t comps[num_writes];
        for (size_t i = 0; i < num_writes; ++i) {
                gettimeofday(&times[i].start, NULL);
                int err = rados_aio_create_completion((void*) &times[i], ack_callback, commit_callback, &comps[i]);
                if (err < 0) {
                        fprintf(stderr, "Error creating rados completion: %s\n", strerror(-err));
                        return err;
                }
                char obj_name[100];
                snprintf(obj_name, sizeof(obj_name), "foo%ld", (unsigned long)i);
                err = rados_aio_append(io, obj_name, comps[i], data, len);
                if (err < 0) {
                        fprintf(stderr, "Error from rados_aio_append: %s", strerror(-err));
                        return err;
                }
        }
        // wait until all requests finish *and* the callbacks complete
        rados_aio_flush(io);
        // the latencies can now be analyzed
        printf("Request # | Ack latency (s) | Commit latency (s)\n");
        for (size_t i = 0; i < num_writes; ++i) {
                // don't forget to free the completions
                rados_aio_release(comps[i]);
                struct timeval ack_lat, commit_lat;
                timersub(&times[i].ack_end, &times[i].start, &ack_lat);
                timersub(&times[i].commit_end, &times[i].start, &commit_lat);
                printf("%9ld | %8ld.%06ld | %10ld.%06ld\n", (unsigned long) i, ack_lat.tv_sec, ack_lat.tv_usec, commit_lat.tv_sec, commit_lat.tv_usec);
        }
        return 0;
}

Note that all the rados_completion_t must be freed with rados_aio_release() to avoid leaking memory.

API calls

Defines

LIBRADOS_ALL_NSPACES

Pass as nspace argument to rados_ioctx_set_namespace() before calling rados_nobjects_list_open() to return all objects in all namespaces.

struct obj_watch_t
#include <rados_types.h>

One item from list_watchers

Public Members

char addr[256]

Address of the Watcher.

int64_t watcher_id

Watcher ID.

uint64_t cookie

Cookie.

uint32_t timeout_seconds

Timeout in Seconds.

struct notify_ack_t

Public Members

uint64_t notifier_id
uint64_t cookie
char *payload
uint64_t payload_len
struct notify_timeout_t

Public Members

uint64_t notifier_id
uint64_t cookie

xattr comparison operations

Operators for comparing xattrs on objects, and aborting the rados_read_op or rados_write_op transaction if the comparison fails.

enum [anonymous]

Values:

enumerator LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_EQ
enumerator LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_NE
enumerator LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_GT
enumerator LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_GTE
enumerator LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_LT
enumerator LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_LTE

Operation Flags

Flags for rados_read_op_operate(), rados_write_op_operate(), rados_aio_read_op_operate(), and rados_aio_write_op_operate(). See librados.hpp for details.

enum [anonymous]

Values:

enumerator LIBRADOS_OPERATION_NOFLAG
enumerator LIBRADOS_OPERATION_BALANCE_READS
enumerator LIBRADOS_OPERATION_LOCALIZE_READS
enumerator LIBRADOS_OPERATION_ORDER_READS_WRITES
enumerator LIBRADOS_OPERATION_IGNORE_CACHE
enumerator LIBRADOS_OPERATION_SKIPRWLOCKS
enumerator LIBRADOS_OPERATION_IGNORE_OVERLAY
enumerator LIBRADOS_OPERATION_FULL_TRY
enumerator LIBRADOS_OPERATION_FULL_FORCE
enumerator LIBRADOS_OPERATION_IGNORE_REDIRECT
enumerator LIBRADOS_OPERATION_ORDERSNAP
enumerator LIBRADOS_OPERATION_RETURNVEC

Alloc hint flags

Flags for rados_write_op_alloc_hint2() and rados_set_alloc_hint2() indicating future IO patterns.

enum [anonymous]

Values:

enumerator LIBRADOS_ALLOC_HINT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE
enumerator LIBRADOS_ALLOC_HINT_FLAG_RANDOM_WRITE
enumerator LIBRADOS_ALLOC_HINT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_READ
enumerator LIBRADOS_ALLOC_HINT_FLAG_RANDOM_READ
enumerator LIBRADOS_ALLOC_HINT_FLAG_APPEND_ONLY
enumerator LIBRADOS_ALLOC_HINT_FLAG_IMMUTABLE
enumerator LIBRADOS_ALLOC_HINT_FLAG_SHORTLIVED
enumerator LIBRADOS_ALLOC_HINT_FLAG_LONGLIVED
enumerator LIBRADOS_ALLOC_HINT_FLAG_COMPRESSIBLE
enumerator LIBRADOS_ALLOC_HINT_FLAG_INCOMPRESSIBLE

Asynchronous I/O

Read and write to objects without blocking.

typedef void (*rados_callback_t)(rados_completion_t cb, void *arg)

Callbacks for asynchrous operations take two parameters:

  • cb the completion that has finished

  • arg application defined data made available to the callback function

int rados_aio_create_completion(void *cb_arg, rados_callback_t cb_complete, rados_callback_t cb_safe, rados_completion_t *pc)

Constructs a completion to use with asynchronous operations

The complete and safe callbacks correspond to operations being acked and committed, respectively. The callbacks are called in order of receipt, so the safe callback may be triggered before the complete callback, and vice versa. This is affected by journalling on the OSDs.

TODO: more complete documentation of this elsewhere (in the RADOS docs?)

Note

Read operations only get a complete callback.

Note

BUG: this should check for ENOMEM instead of throwing an exception

Parameters
  • cb_arg -- application-defined data passed to the callback functions

  • cb_complete -- the function to be called when the operation is in memory on all replicas

  • cb_safe -- the function to be called when the operation is on stable storage on all replicas

  • pc -- where to store the completion

Returns

0

int rados_aio_create_completion2(void *cb_arg, rados_callback_t cb_complete, rados_completion_t *pc)

Constructs a completion to use with asynchronous operations

The complete callback corresponds to operation being acked.

Note

BUG: this should check for ENOMEM instead of throwing an exception

Parameters
  • cb_arg -- application-defined data passed to the callback functions

  • cb_complete -- the function to be called when the operation is committed on all replicas

  • pc -- where to store the completion

Returns

0

int rados_aio_wait_for_complete(rados_completion_t c)

Block until an operation completes

This means it is in memory on all replicas.

Note

BUG: this should be void

Parameters
  • c -- operation to wait for

Returns

0

int rados_aio_wait_for_safe(rados_completion_t c) __attribute__((deprecated))

Block until an operation is safe

This means it is on stable storage on all replicas.

Note

BUG: this should be void

Parameters
  • c -- operation to wait for

Returns

0

int rados_aio_is_complete(rados_completion_t c)

Has an asynchronous operation completed?

Warning

This does not imply that the complete callback has finished

Parameters
  • c -- async operation to inspect

Returns

whether c is complete

int rados_aio_is_safe(rados_completion_t c)

Is an asynchronous operation safe?

Warning

This does not imply that the safe callback has finished

Parameters
  • c -- async operation to inspect

Returns

whether c is safe

int rados_aio_wait_for_complete_and_cb(rados_completion_t c)

Block until an operation completes and callback completes

This means it is in memory on all replicas and can be read.

Note

BUG: this should be void

Parameters
  • c -- operation to wait for

Returns

0

int rados_aio_wait_for_safe_and_cb(rados_completion_t c) __attribute__((deprecated))

Block until an operation is safe and callback has completed

This means it is on stable storage on all replicas.

Note

BUG: this should be void

Parameters
  • c -- operation to wait for

Returns

0

int rados_aio_is_complete_and_cb(rados_completion_t c)

Has an asynchronous operation and callback completed

Parameters
  • c -- async operation to inspect

Returns

whether c is complete

int rados_aio_is_safe_and_cb(rados_completion_t c)

Is an asynchronous operation safe and has the callback completed

Parameters
  • c -- async operation to inspect

Returns

whether c is safe

int rados_aio_get_return_value(rados_completion_t c)

Get the return value of an asychronous operation

The return value is set when the operation is complete or safe, whichever comes first.

Note

BUG: complete callback may never be called when the safe message is received before the complete message

Parameters
  • c -- async operation to inspect

Pre

The operation is safe or complete

Returns

return value of the operation

uint64_t rados_aio_get_version(rados_completion_t c)

Get the internal object version of the target of an asychronous operation

The return value is set when the operation is complete or safe, whichever comes first.

Note

BUG: complete callback may never be called when the safe message is received before the complete message

Parameters
  • c -- async operation to inspect

Pre

The operation is safe or complete

Returns

version number of the asychronous operation’s target

void rados_aio_release(rados_completion_t c)

Release a completion

Call this when you no longer need the completion. It may not be freed immediately if the operation is not acked and committed.

Parameters
  • c -- completion to release

int rados_aio_write(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, rados_completion_t completion, const char *buf, size_t len, uint64_t off)

Write data to an object asynchronously

Queues the write and returns. The return value of the completion will be 0 on success, negative error code on failure.

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which the write will occur

  • oid -- name of the object

  • completion -- what to do when the write is safe and complete

  • buf -- data to write

  • len -- length of the data, in bytes

  • off -- byte offset in the object to begin writing at

Returns

0 on success, -EROFS if the io context specifies a snap_seq other than LIBRADOS_SNAP_HEAD

int rados_aio_append(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, rados_completion_t completion, const char *buf, size_t len)

Asynchronously append data to an object

Queues the append and returns.

The return value of the completion will be 0 on success, negative error code on failure.

Parameters
  • io -- the context to operate in

  • oid -- the name of the object

  • completion -- what to do when the append is safe and complete

  • buf -- the data to append

  • len -- length of buf (in bytes)

Returns

0 on success, -EROFS if the io context specifies a snap_seq other than LIBRADOS_SNAP_HEAD

int rados_aio_write_full(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, rados_completion_t completion, const char *buf, size_t len)

Asynchronously write an entire object

The object is filled with the provided data. If the object exists, it is atomically truncated and then written. Queues the write_full and returns.

The return value of the completion will be 0 on success, negative error code on failure.

Parameters
  • io -- the io context in which the write will occur

  • oid -- name of the object

  • completion -- what to do when the write_full is safe and complete

  • buf -- data to write

  • len -- length of the data, in bytes

Returns

0 on success, -EROFS if the io context specifies a snap_seq other than LIBRADOS_SNAP_HEAD

int rados_aio_writesame(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, rados_completion_t completion, const char *buf, size_t data_len, size_t write_len, uint64_t off)

Asynchronously write the same buffer multiple times

Queues the writesame and returns.

The return value of the completion will be 0 on success, negative error code on failure.

Parameters
  • io -- the io context in which the write will occur

  • oid -- name of the object

  • completion -- what to do when the writesame is safe and complete

  • buf -- data to write

  • data_len -- length of the data, in bytes

  • write_len -- the total number of bytes to write

  • off -- byte offset in the object to begin writing at

Returns

0 on success, -EROFS if the io context specifies a snap_seq other than LIBRADOS_SNAP_HEAD

int rados_aio_remove(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, rados_completion_t completion)

Asynchronously remove an object

Queues the remove and returns.

The return value of the completion will be 0 on success, negative error code on failure.

Parameters
  • io -- the context to operate in

  • oid -- the name of the object

  • completion -- what to do when the remove is safe and complete

Returns

0 on success, -EROFS if the io context specifies a snap_seq other than LIBRADOS_SNAP_HEAD

int rados_aio_read(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, rados_completion_t completion, char *buf, size_t len, uint64_t off)

Asynchronously read data from an object

The io context determines the snapshot to read from, if any was set by rados_ioctx_snap_set_read().

The return value of the completion will be number of bytes read on success, negative error code on failure.

Note

only the ‘complete’ callback of the completion will be called.

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which to perform the read

  • oid -- the name of the object to read from

  • completion -- what to do when the read is complete

  • buf -- where to store the results

  • len -- the number of bytes to read

  • off -- the offset to start reading from in the object

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_aio_flush(rados_ioctx_t io)

Block until all pending writes in an io context are safe

This is not equivalent to calling rados_aio_wait_for_safe() on all write completions, since this waits for the associated callbacks to complete as well.

Note

BUG: always returns 0, should be void or accept a timeout

Parameters
  • io -- the context to flush

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_aio_flush_async(rados_ioctx_t io, rados_completion_t completion)

Schedule a callback for when all currently pending aio writes are safe. This is a non-blocking version of rados_aio_flush().

Parameters
  • io -- the context to flush

  • completion -- what to do when the writes are safe

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_aio_stat(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, rados_completion_t completion, uint64_t *psize, time_t *pmtime)

Asynchronously get object stats (size/mtime)

Parameters
  • io -- ioctx

  • o -- object name

  • completion -- what to do when the stat is complete

  • psize -- where to store object size

  • pmtime -- where to store modification time

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_aio_stat2(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, rados_completion_t completion, uint64_t *psize, struct timespec *pmtime)
int rados_aio_cmpext(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, rados_completion_t completion, const char *cmp_buf, size_t cmp_len, uint64_t off)

Asynchronously compare an on-disk object range with a buffer

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which to perform the comparison

  • o -- the name of the object to compare with

  • completion -- what to do when the comparison is complete

  • cmp_buf -- buffer containing bytes to be compared with object contents

  • cmp_len -- length to compare and size of cmp_buf in bytes

  • off -- object byte offset at which to start the comparison

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure, (-MAX_ERRNO - mismatch_off) on mismatch

int rados_aio_cancel(rados_ioctx_t io, rados_completion_t completion)

Cancel async operation

Parameters
  • io -- ioctx

  • completion -- completion handle

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_aio_exec(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, rados_completion_t completion, const char *cls, const char *method, const char *in_buf, size_t in_len, char *buf, size_t out_len)

Asynchronously execute an OSD class method on an object

The OSD has a plugin mechanism for performing complicated operations on an object atomically. These plugins are called classes. This function allows librados users to call the custom methods. The input and output formats are defined by the class. Classes in ceph.git can be found in src/cls subdirectories

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which to call the method

  • o -- name of the object

  • completion -- what to do when the exec completes

  • cls -- the name of the class

  • method -- the name of the method

  • in_buf -- where to find input

  • in_len -- length of in_buf in bytes

  • buf -- where to store output

  • out_len -- length of buf in bytes

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Watch/Notify

Watch/notify is a protocol to help communicate among clients. It can be used to sychronize client state. All that’s needed is a well-known object name (for example, rbd uses the header object of an image).

Watchers register an interest in an object, and receive all notifies on that object. A notify attempts to communicate with all clients watching an object, and blocks on the notifier until each client responds or a timeout is reached.

See rados_watch() and rados_notify() for more details.

typedef void (*rados_watchcb_t)(uint8_t opcode, uint64_t ver, void *arg)

Callback activated when a notify is received on a watched object.

Note

BUG: opcode is an internal detail that shouldn’t be exposed

Note

BUG: ver is unused

Param opcode

undefined

Param ver

version of the watched object

Param arg

application-specific data

typedef void (*rados_watchcb2_t)(void *arg, uint64_t notify_id, uint64_t handle, uint64_t notifier_id, void *data, size_t data_len)

Callback activated when a notify is received on a watched object.

Param arg

opaque user-defined value provided to rados_watch2()

Param notify_id

an id for this notify event

Param handle

the watcher handle we are notifying

Param notifier_id

the unique client id for the notifier

Param data

payload from the notifier

Param data_len

length of payload buffer

typedef void (*rados_watcherrcb_t)(void *pre, uint64_t cookie, int err)

Callback activated when we encounter an error with the watch session. This can happen when the location of the objects moves within the cluster and we fail to register our watch with the new object location, or when our connection with the object OSD is otherwise interrupted and we may have missed notify events.

Param pre

opaque user-defined value provided to rados_watch2()

Param cookie

the internal id assigned to the watch session

Param err

error code

int rados_watch(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, uint64_t ver, uint64_t *cookie, rados_watchcb_t watchcb, void *arg) __attribute__((deprecated))

Register an interest in an object

A watch operation registers the client as being interested in notifications on an object. OSDs keep track of watches on persistent storage, so they are preserved across cluster changes by the normal recovery process. If the client loses its connection to the primary OSD for a watched object, the watch will be removed after 30 seconds. Watches are automatically reestablished when a new connection is made, or a placement group switches OSDs.

Note

BUG: librados should provide a way for watchers to notice connection resets

Note

BUG: the ver parameter does not work, and -ERANGE will never be returned (See URL tracker.ceph.com/issues/2592)

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the object is in

  • o -- the object to watch

  • ver -- expected version of the object

  • cookie -- where to store the internal id assigned to this watch

  • watchcb -- what to do when a notify is received on this object

  • arg -- application defined data to pass when watchcb is called

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Returns

-ERANGE if the version of the object is greater than ver

int rados_watch2(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, uint64_t *cookie, rados_watchcb2_t watchcb, rados_watcherrcb_t watcherrcb, void *arg)

Register an interest in an object

A watch operation registers the client as being interested in notifications on an object. OSDs keep track of watches on persistent storage, so they are preserved across cluster changes by the normal recovery process. If the client loses its connection to the primary OSD for a watched object, the watch will be removed after a timeout configured with osd_client_watch_timeout. Watches are automatically reestablished when a new connection is made, or a placement group switches OSDs.

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the object is in

  • o -- the object to watch

  • cookie -- where to store the internal id assigned to this watch

  • watchcb -- what to do when a notify is received on this object

  • watcherrcb -- what to do when the watch session encounters an error

  • arg -- opaque value to pass to the callback

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_watch3(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, uint64_t *cookie, rados_watchcb2_t watchcb, rados_watcherrcb_t watcherrcb, uint32_t timeout, void *arg)

Register an interest in an object

A watch operation registers the client as being interested in notifications on an object. OSDs keep track of watches on persistent storage, so they are preserved across cluster changes by the normal recovery process. Watches are automatically reestablished when a new connection is made, or a placement group switches OSDs.

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the object is in

  • o -- the object to watch

  • cookie -- where to store the internal id assigned to this watch

  • watchcb -- what to do when a notify is received on this object

  • watcherrcb -- what to do when the watch session encounters an error

  • timeout -- how many seconds the connection will keep after disconnection

  • arg -- opaque value to pass to the callback

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_aio_watch(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, rados_completion_t completion, uint64_t *handle, rados_watchcb2_t watchcb, rados_watcherrcb_t watcherrcb, void *arg)

Asynchronous register an interest in an object

A watch operation registers the client as being interested in notifications on an object. OSDs keep track of watches on persistent storage, so they are preserved across cluster changes by the normal recovery process. If the client loses its connection to the primary OSD for a watched object, the watch will be removed after 30 seconds. Watches are automatically reestablished when a new connection is made, or a placement group switches OSDs.

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the object is in

  • o -- the object to watch

  • completion -- what to do when operation has been attempted

  • handle -- where to store the internal id assigned to this watch

  • watchcb -- what to do when a notify is received on this object

  • watcherrcb -- what to do when the watch session encounters an error

  • arg -- opaque value to pass to the callback

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_aio_watch2(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, rados_completion_t completion, uint64_t *handle, rados_watchcb2_t watchcb, rados_watcherrcb_t watcherrcb, uint32_t timeout, void *arg)

Asynchronous register an interest in an object

A watch operation registers the client as being interested in notifications on an object. OSDs keep track of watches on persistent storage, so they are preserved across cluster changes by the normal recovery process. If the client loses its connection to the primary OSD for a watched object, the watch will be removed after the number of seconds that configured in timeout parameter. Watches are automatically reestablished when a new connection is made, or a placement group switches OSDs.

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the object is in

  • o -- the object to watch

  • completion -- what to do when operation has been attempted

  • handle -- where to store the internal id assigned to this watch

  • watchcb -- what to do when a notify is received on this object

  • watcherrcb -- what to do when the watch session encounters an error

  • timeout -- how many seconds the connection will keep after disconnection

  • arg -- opaque value to pass to the callback

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_watch_check(rados_ioctx_t io, uint64_t cookie)

Check on the status of a watch

Return the number of milliseconds since the watch was last confirmed. Or, if there has been an error, return that.

If there is an error, the watch is no longer valid, and should be destroyed with rados_unwatch2(). The the user is still interested in the object, a new watch should be created with rados_watch2().

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the object is in

  • cookie -- the watch handle

Returns

ms since last confirmed on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_unwatch(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, uint64_t cookie) __attribute__((deprecated))

Unregister an interest in an object

Once this completes, no more notifies will be sent to us for this watch. This should be called to clean up unneeded watchers.

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the object is in

  • o -- the name of the watched object (ignored)

  • cookie -- which watch to unregister

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_unwatch2(rados_ioctx_t io, uint64_t cookie)

Unregister an interest in an object

Once this completes, no more notifies will be sent to us for this watch. This should be called to clean up unneeded watchers.

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the object is in

  • cookie -- which watch to unregister

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_aio_unwatch(rados_ioctx_t io, uint64_t cookie, rados_completion_t completion)

Asynchronous unregister an interest in an object

Once this completes, no more notifies will be sent to us for this watch. This should be called to clean up unneeded watchers.

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the object is in

  • completion -- what to do when operation has been attempted

  • cookie -- which watch to unregister

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_notify(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, uint64_t ver, const char *buf, int buf_len) __attribute__((deprecated))

Sychronously notify watchers of an object

This blocks until all watchers of the object have received and reacted to the notify, or a timeout is reached.

Note

BUG: the timeout is not changeable via the C API

Note

BUG: the bufferlist is inaccessible in a rados_watchcb_t

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the object is in

  • o -- the name of the object

  • ver -- obsolete - just pass zero

  • buf -- data to send to watchers

  • buf_len -- length of buf in bytes

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_aio_notify(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, rados_completion_t completion, const char *buf, int buf_len, uint64_t timeout_ms, char **reply_buffer, size_t *reply_buffer_len)

Sychronously notify watchers of an object

This blocks until all watchers of the object have received and reacted to the notify, or a timeout is reached.

The reply buffer is optional. If specified, the client will get back an encoded buffer that includes the ids of the clients that acknowledged the notify as well as their notify ack payloads (if any). Clients that timed out are not included. Even clients that do not include a notify ack payload are included in the list but have a 0-length payload associated with them. The format:

le32 num_acks { le64 gid global id for the client (for client.1234 that’s 1234) le64 cookie cookie for the client le32 buflen length of reply message buffer u8 * buflen payload } * num_acks le32 num_timeouts { le64 gid global id for the client le64 cookie cookie for the client } * num_timeouts

Note: There may be multiple instances of the same gid if there are multiple watchers registered via the same client.

Note: The buffer must be released with rados_buffer_free() when the user is done with it.

Note: Since the result buffer includes clients that time out, it will be set even when rados_notify() returns an error code (like -ETIMEDOUT).

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the object is in

  • completion -- what to do when operation has been attempted

  • o -- the name of the object

  • buf -- data to send to watchers

  • buf_len -- length of buf in bytes

  • timeout_ms -- notify timeout (in ms)

  • reply_buffer -- pointer to reply buffer pointer (free with rados_buffer_free)

  • reply_buffer_len -- pointer to size of reply buffer

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_notify2(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, const char *buf, int buf_len, uint64_t timeout_ms, char **reply_buffer, size_t *reply_buffer_len)
int rados_decode_notify_response(char *reply_buffer, size_t reply_buffer_len, struct notify_ack_t **acks, size_t *nr_acks, struct notify_timeout_t **timeouts, size_t *nr_timeouts)

Decode a notify response

Decode a notify response (from rados_aio_notify() call) into acks and timeout arrays.

Parameters
  • reply_buffer -- buffer from rados_aio_notify() call

  • reply_buffer_len -- reply_buffer length

  • acks -- pointer to struct notify_ack_t pointer

  • nr_acks -- pointer to ack count

  • timeouts -- pointer to notify_timeout_t pointer

  • nr_timeouts -- pointer to timeout count

Returns

0 on success

void rados_free_notify_response(struct notify_ack_t *acks, size_t nr_acks, struct notify_timeout_t *timeouts)

Free notify allocated buffer

Release memory allocated by rados_decode_notify_response() call

Parameters
  • acks -- notify_ack_t struct (from rados_decode_notify_response())

  • nr_acks -- ack count

  • timeouts -- notify_timeout_t struct (from rados_decode_notify_response())

int rados_notify_ack(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, uint64_t notify_id, uint64_t cookie, const char *buf, int buf_len)

Acknolwedge receipt of a notify

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the object is in

  • o -- the name of the object

  • notify_id -- the notify_id we got on the watchcb2_t callback

  • cookie -- the watcher handle

  • buf -- payload to return to notifier (optional)

  • buf_len -- payload length

Returns

0 on success

int rados_watch_flush(rados_t cluster)

Flush watch/notify callbacks

This call will block until all pending watch/notify callbacks have been executed and the queue is empty. It should usually be called after shutting down any watches before shutting down the ioctx or librados to ensure that any callbacks do not misuse the ioctx (for example by calling rados_notify_ack after the ioctx has been destroyed).

Parameters
  • cluster -- the cluster handle

int rados_aio_watch_flush(rados_t cluster, rados_completion_t completion)

Flush watch/notify callbacks

This call will be nonblock, and the completion will be called until all pending watch/notify callbacks have been executed and the queue is empty. It should usually be called after shutting down any watches before shutting down the ioctx or librados to ensure that any callbacks do not misuse the ioctx (for example by calling rados_notify_ack after the ioctx has been destroyed).

Parameters
  • cluster -- the cluster handle

  • completion -- what to do when operation has been attempted

Mon/OSD/PG Commands

These interfaces send commands relating to the monitor, OSD, or PGs.

typedef void (*rados_log_callback_t)(void *arg, const char *line, const char *who, uint64_t sec, uint64_t nsec, uint64_t seq, const char *level, const char *msg)
typedef void (*rados_log_callback2_t)(void *arg, const char *line, const char *channel, const char *who, const char *name, uint64_t sec, uint64_t nsec, uint64_t seq, const char *level, const char *msg)
int rados_mon_command(rados_t cluster, const char **cmd, size_t cmdlen, const char *inbuf, size_t inbuflen, char **outbuf, size_t *outbuflen, char **outs, size_t *outslen)

Send monitor command.

The result buffers are allocated on the heap; the caller is expected to release that memory with rados_buffer_free(). The buffer and length pointers can all be NULL, in which case they are not filled in.

Note

Takes command string in carefully-formatted JSON; must match defined commands, types, etc.

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle

  • cmd -- an array of char *’s representing the command

  • cmdlen -- count of valid entries in cmd

  • inbuf -- any bulk input data (crush map, etc.)

  • inbuflen -- input buffer length

  • outbuf -- double pointer to output buffer

  • outbuflen -- pointer to output buffer length

  • outs -- double pointer to status string

  • outslen -- pointer to status string length

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_mgr_command(rados_t cluster, const char **cmd, size_t cmdlen, const char *inbuf, size_t inbuflen, char **outbuf, size_t *outbuflen, char **outs, size_t *outslen)

Send ceph-mgr command.

The result buffers are allocated on the heap; the caller is expected to release that memory with rados_buffer_free(). The buffer and length pointers can all be NULL, in which case they are not filled in.

Note

Takes command string in carefully-formatted JSON; must match defined commands, types, etc.

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle

  • cmd -- an array of char *’s representing the command

  • cmdlen -- count of valid entries in cmd

  • inbuf -- any bulk input data (crush map, etc.)

  • inbuflen -- input buffer length

  • outbuf -- double pointer to output buffer

  • outbuflen -- pointer to output buffer length

  • outs -- double pointer to status string

  • outslen -- pointer to status string length

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_mgr_command_target(rados_t cluster, const char *name, const char **cmd, size_t cmdlen, const char *inbuf, size_t inbuflen, char **outbuf, size_t *outbuflen, char **outs, size_t *outslen)

Send ceph-mgr tell command.

The result buffers are allocated on the heap; the caller is expected to release that memory with rados_buffer_free(). The buffer and length pointers can all be NULL, in which case they are not filled in.

Note

Takes command string in carefully-formatted JSON; must match defined commands, types, etc.

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle

  • name -- mgr name to target

  • cmd -- an array of char *’s representing the command

  • cmdlen -- count of valid entries in cmd

  • inbuf -- any bulk input data (crush map, etc.)

  • inbuflen -- input buffer length

  • outbuf -- double pointer to output buffer

  • outbuflen -- pointer to output buffer length

  • outs -- double pointer to status string

  • outslen -- pointer to status string length

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_mon_command_target(rados_t cluster, const char *name, const char **cmd, size_t cmdlen, const char *inbuf, size_t inbuflen, char **outbuf, size_t *outbuflen, char **outs, size_t *outslen)

Send monitor command to a specific monitor.

The result buffers are allocated on the heap; the caller is expected to release that memory with rados_buffer_free(). The buffer and length pointers can all be NULL, in which case they are not filled in.

Note

Takes command string in carefully-formatted JSON; must match defined commands, types, etc.

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle

  • name -- target monitor’s name

  • cmd -- an array of char *’s representing the command

  • cmdlen -- count of valid entries in cmd

  • inbuf -- any bulk input data (crush map, etc.)

  • inbuflen -- input buffer length

  • outbuf -- double pointer to output buffer

  • outbuflen -- pointer to output buffer length

  • outs -- double pointer to status string

  • outslen -- pointer to status string length

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

void rados_buffer_free(char *buf)

free a rados-allocated buffer

Release memory allocated by librados calls like rados_mon_command().

Parameters
  • buf -- buffer pointer

int rados_osd_command(rados_t cluster, int osdid, const char **cmd, size_t cmdlen, const char *inbuf, size_t inbuflen, char **outbuf, size_t *outbuflen, char **outs, size_t *outslen)
int rados_pg_command(rados_t cluster, const char *pgstr, const char **cmd, size_t cmdlen, const char *inbuf, size_t inbuflen, char **outbuf, size_t *outbuflen, char **outs, size_t *outslen)
int rados_monitor_log(rados_t cluster, const char *level, rados_log_callback_t cb, void *arg)
int rados_monitor_log2(rados_t cluster, const char *level, rados_log_callback2_t cb, void *arg)
int rados_service_register(rados_t cluster, const char *service, const char *daemon, const char *metadata_dict)

register daemon instance for a service

Register us as a daemon providing a particular service. We identify the service (e.g., ‘rgw’) and our instance name (e.g., ‘rgw.$hostname’). The metadata is a map of keys and values with arbitrary static metdata for this instance. The encoding is a series of NULL-terminated strings, alternating key names and values, terminating with an empty key name. For example, “foo\0bar\0this\0that\0\0” is the dict {foo=bar,this=that}.

For the lifetime of the librados instance, regular beacons will be sent to the cluster to maintain our registration in the service map.

Parameters
  • cluster -- handle

  • service -- service name

  • daemon -- daemon instance name

  • metadata_dict -- static daemon metadata dict

int rados_service_update_status(rados_t cluster, const char *status_dict)

update daemon status

Update our mutable status information in the service map.

The status dict is encoded the same way the daemon metadata is encoded for rados_service_register. For example, “foo\0bar\0this\0that\0\0” is {foo=bar,this=that}.

Parameters
  • cluster -- rados cluster handle

  • status_dict -- status dict

Setup and Teardown

These are the first and last functions to that should be called when using librados.

int rados_create(rados_t *cluster, const char *const id)

Create a handle for communicating with a RADOS cluster.

Ceph environment variables are read when this is called, so if $CEPH_ARGS specifies everything you need to connect, no further configuration is necessary.

Parameters
  • cluster -- where to store the handle

  • id -- the user to connect as (i.e. admin, not client.admin)

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_create2(rados_t *pcluster, const char *const clustername, const char *const name, uint64_t flags)

Extended version of rados_create.

Like rados_create, but 1) don’t assume ‘client.’+id; allow full specification of name 2) allow specification of cluster name 3) flags for future expansion

int rados_create_with_context(rados_t *cluster, rados_config_t cct)

Initialize a cluster handle from an existing configuration.

Share configuration state with another rados_t instance.

Parameters
  • cluster -- where to store the handle

  • cct -- the existing configuration to use

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_ping_monitor(rados_t cluster, const char *mon_id, char **outstr, size_t *outstrlen)

Ping the monitor with ID mon_id, storing the resulting reply in buf (if specified) with a maximum size of len.

The result buffer is allocated on the heap; the caller is expected to release that memory with rados_buffer_free(). The buffer and length pointers can be NULL, in which case they are not filled in.

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle

  • mon_id -- [in] ID of the monitor to ping

  • outstr -- [out] double pointer with the resulting reply

  • outstrlen -- [out] pointer with the size of the reply in outstr

int rados_connect(rados_t cluster)

Connect to the cluster.

Note

BUG: Before calling this, calling a function that communicates with the cluster will crash.

Parameters
  • cluster -- The cluster to connect to.

Pre

The cluster handle is configured with at least a monitor address. If cephx is enabled, a client name and secret must also be set.

Post

If this succeeds, any function in librados may be used

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

void rados_shutdown(rados_t cluster)

Disconnects from the cluster.

For clean up, this is only necessary after rados_connect() has succeeded.

Warning

This does not guarantee any asynchronous writes have completed. To do that, you must call rados_aio_flush() on all open io contexts.

Warning

We implicitly call rados_watch_flush() on shutdown. If there are watches being used, this should be done explicitly before destroying the relevant IoCtx. We do it here as a safety measure.

Parameters
  • cluster -- the cluster to shutdown

Post

the cluster handle cannot be used again

Configuration

These functions read and update Ceph configuration for a cluster handle. Any configuration changes must be done before connecting to the cluster.

Options that librados users might want to set include:

  • mon_host

  • auth_supported

  • key, keyfile, or keyring when using cephx

  • log_file, log_to_stderr, err_to_stderr, and log_to_syslog

  • debug_rados, debug_objecter, debug_monc, debug_auth, or debug_ms

See docs.ceph.com for information about available configuration options`

int rados_conf_read_file(rados_t cluster, const char *path)

Configure the cluster handle using a Ceph config file

If path is NULL, the default locations are searched, and the first found is used. The locations are:

  • $CEPH_CONF (environment variable)

  • /etc/ceph/ceph.conf

  • ~/.ceph/config

  • ceph.conf (in the current working directory)

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle to configure

  • path -- path to a Ceph configuration file

Pre

rados_connect() has not been called on the cluster handle

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_conf_parse_argv(rados_t cluster, int argc, const char **argv)

Configure the cluster handle with command line arguments

argv can contain any common Ceph command line option, including any configuration parameter prefixed by ‘&#8212;’ and replacing spaces with dashes or underscores. For example, the following options are equivalent:

  • &#8212;mon-host 10.0.0.1:6789

  • &#8212;mon_host 10.0.0.1:6789

  • -m 10.0.0.1:6789

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle to configure

  • argc -- number of arguments in argv

  • argv -- arguments to parse

Pre

rados_connect() has not been called on the cluster handle

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_conf_parse_argv_remainder(rados_t cluster, int argc, const char **argv, const char **remargv)

Configure the cluster handle with command line arguments, returning any remainders. Same rados_conf_parse_argv, except for extra remargv argument to hold returns unrecognized arguments.

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle to configure

  • argc -- number of arguments in argv

  • argv -- arguments to parse

  • remargv -- char* array for returned unrecognized arguments

Pre

rados_connect() has not been called on the cluster handle

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_conf_parse_env(rados_t cluster, const char *var)

Configure the cluster handle based on an environment variable

The contents of the environment variable are parsed as if they were Ceph command line options. If var is NULL, the CEPH_ARGS environment variable is used.

Note

BUG: this is not threadsafe - it uses a static buffer

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle to configure

  • var -- name of the environment variable to read

Pre

rados_connect() has not been called on the cluster handle

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_conf_set(rados_t cluster, const char *option, const char *value)

Set a configuration option

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle to configure

  • option -- option to set

  • value -- value of the option

Pre

rados_connect() has not been called on the cluster handle

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Returns

-ENOENT when the option is not a Ceph configuration option

int rados_conf_get(rados_t cluster, const char *option, char *buf, size_t len)

Get the value of a configuration option

Parameters
  • cluster -- configuration to read

  • option -- which option to read

  • buf -- where to write the configuration value

  • len -- the size of buf in bytes

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Returns

-ENAMETOOLONG if the buffer is too short to contain the requested value

Pools

RADOS pools are separate namespaces for objects. Pools may have different crush rules associated with them, so they could have differing replication levels or placement strategies. RADOS permissions are also tied to pools - users can have different read, write, and execute permissions on a per-pool basis.

int rados_pool_list(rados_t cluster, char *buf, size_t len)

List pools

Gets a list of pool names as NULL-terminated strings. The pool names will be placed in the supplied buffer one after another. After the last pool name, there will be two 0 bytes in a row.

If len is too short to fit all the pool name entries we need, we will fill as much as we can.

Buf may be null to determine the buffer size needed to list all pools.

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle

  • buf -- output buffer

  • len -- output buffer length

Returns

length of the buffer we would need to list all pools

int rados_inconsistent_pg_list(rados_t cluster, int64_t pool, char *buf, size_t len)

List inconsistent placement groups of the given pool

Gets a list of inconsistent placement groups as NULL-terminated strings. The placement group names will be placed in the supplied buffer one after another. After the last name, there will be two 0 types in a row.

If len is too short to fit all the placement group entries we need, we will fill as much as we can.

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle

  • pool -- pool ID

  • buf -- output buffer

  • len -- output buffer length

Returns

length of the buffer we would need to list all pools

rados_config_t rados_cct(rados_t cluster)

Get a configuration handle for a rados cluster handle

This handle is valid only as long as the cluster handle is valid.

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle

Returns

config handle for this cluster

uint64_t rados_get_instance_id(rados_t cluster)

Get a global id for current instance

This id is a unique representation of current connection to the cluster

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle

Returns

instance global id

int rados_get_min_compatible_osd(rados_t cluster, int8_t *require_osd_release)

Gets the minimum compatible OSD version

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle

  • require_osd_release -- [out] minimum compatible OSD version based upon the current features

Returns

0 on sucess, negative error code on failure

int rados_get_min_compatible_client(rados_t cluster, int8_t *min_compat_client, int8_t *require_min_compat_client)

Gets the minimum compatible client version

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle

  • min_compat_client -- [out] minimum compatible client version based upon the current features

  • require_min_compat_client -- [out] required minimum client version based upon explicit setting

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_ioctx_create(rados_t cluster, const char *pool_name, rados_ioctx_t *ioctx)

Create an io context

The io context allows you to perform operations within a particular pool. For more details see rados_ioctx_t.

Parameters
  • cluster -- which cluster the pool is in

  • pool_name -- name of the pool

  • ioctx -- where to store the io context

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_ioctx_create2(rados_t cluster, int64_t pool_id, rados_ioctx_t *ioctx)
void rados_ioctx_destroy(rados_ioctx_t io)

The opposite of rados_ioctx_create

This just tells librados that you no longer need to use the io context. It may not be freed immediately if there are pending asynchronous requests on it, but you should not use an io context again after calling this function on it.

Warning

This does not guarantee any asynchronous writes have completed. You must call rados_aio_flush() on the io context before destroying it to do that.

Warning

If this ioctx is used by rados_watch, the caller needs to be sure that all registered watches are disconnected via rados_unwatch() and that rados_watch_flush() is called. This ensures that a racing watch callback does not make use of a destroyed ioctx.

Parameters
  • io -- the io context to dispose of

rados_config_t rados_ioctx_cct(rados_ioctx_t io)

Get configuration handle for a pool handle

Parameters
  • io -- pool handle

Returns

rados_config_t for this cluster

rados_t rados_ioctx_get_cluster(rados_ioctx_t io)

Get the cluster handle used by this rados_ioctx_t Note that this is a weak reference, and should not be destroyed via rados_shutdown().

Parameters
  • io -- the io context

Returns

the cluster handle for this io context

int rados_ioctx_pool_stat(rados_ioctx_t io, struct rados_pool_stat_t *stats)

Get pool usage statistics

Fills in a rados_pool_stat_t after querying the cluster.

Parameters
  • io -- determines which pool to query

  • stats -- where to store the results

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int64_t rados_pool_lookup(rados_t cluster, const char *pool_name)

Get the id of a pool

Parameters
  • cluster -- which cluster the pool is in

  • pool_name -- which pool to look up

Returns

id of the pool

Returns

-ENOENT if the pool is not found

int rados_pool_reverse_lookup(rados_t cluster, int64_t id, char *buf, size_t maxlen)

Get the name of a pool

Parameters
  • cluster -- which cluster the pool is in

  • id -- the id of the pool

  • buf -- where to store the pool name

  • maxlen -- size of buffer where name will be stored

Returns

length of string stored, or -ERANGE if buffer too small

int rados_pool_create(rados_t cluster, const char *pool_name)

Create a pool with default settings

The default crush rule is rule 0.

Parameters
  • cluster -- the cluster in which the pool will be created

  • pool_name -- the name of the new pool

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_pool_create_with_auid(rados_t cluster, const char *pool_name, uint64_t auid) __attribute__((deprecated))

Create a pool owned by a specific auid.

DEPRECATED: auid support has been removed, and this call will be removed in a future release.

Parameters
  • cluster -- the cluster in which the pool will be created

  • pool_name -- the name of the new pool

  • auid -- the id of the owner of the new pool

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_pool_create_with_crush_rule(rados_t cluster, const char *pool_name, uint8_t crush_rule_num)

Create a pool with a specific CRUSH rule

Parameters
  • cluster -- the cluster in which the pool will be created

  • pool_name -- the name of the new pool

  • crush_rule_num -- which rule to use for placement in the new pool1

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_pool_create_with_all(rados_t cluster, const char *pool_name, uint64_t auid, uint8_t crush_rule_num) __attribute__((deprecated))

Create a pool with a specific CRUSH rule and auid

DEPRECATED: auid support has been removed and this call will be removed in a future release.

This is a combination of rados_pool_create_with_crush_rule() and rados_pool_create_with_auid().

Parameters
  • cluster -- the cluster in which the pool will be created

  • pool_name -- the name of the new pool

  • crush_rule_num -- which rule to use for placement in the new pool2

  • auid -- the id of the owner of the new pool

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_pool_get_base_tier(rados_t cluster, int64_t pool, int64_t *base_tier)

Returns the pool that is the base tier for this pool.

The return value is the ID of the pool that should be used to read from/write to. If tiering is not set up for the pool, returns pool.

Parameters
  • cluster -- the cluster the pool is in

  • pool -- ID of the pool to query

  • base_tier -- [out] base tier, or pool if tiering is not configured

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_pool_delete(rados_t cluster, const char *pool_name)

Delete a pool and all data inside it

The pool is removed from the cluster immediately, but the actual data is deleted in the background.

Parameters
  • cluster -- the cluster the pool is in

  • pool_name -- which pool to delete

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_ioctx_pool_set_auid(rados_ioctx_t io, uint64_t auid) __attribute__((deprecated))

Attempt to change an io context’s associated auid “owner”

DEPRECATED: auid support has been removed and this call has no effect.

Requires that you have write permission on both the current and new auid.

Parameters
  • io -- reference to the pool to change.

  • auid -- the auid you wish the io to have.

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_ioctx_pool_get_auid(rados_ioctx_t io, uint64_t *auid) __attribute__((deprecated))

Get the auid of a pool

DEPRECATED: auid support has been removed and this call always reports CEPH_AUTH_UID_DEFAULT (-1).

Parameters
  • io -- pool to query

  • auid -- where to store the auid

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_ioctx_pool_requires_alignment(rados_ioctx_t io) __attribute__((deprecated))
int rados_ioctx_pool_requires_alignment2(rados_ioctx_t io, int *req)

Test whether the specified pool requires alignment or not.

Parameters
  • io -- pool to query

  • req -- 1 if alignment is supported, 0 if not.

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

uint64_t rados_ioctx_pool_required_alignment(rados_ioctx_t io) __attribute__((deprecated))
int rados_ioctx_pool_required_alignment2(rados_ioctx_t io, uint64_t *alignment)

Get the alignment flavor of a pool

Parameters
  • io -- pool to query

  • alignment -- where to store the alignment flavor

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int64_t rados_ioctx_get_id(rados_ioctx_t io)

Get the pool id of the io context

Parameters
  • io -- the io context to query

Returns

the id of the pool the io context uses

int rados_ioctx_get_pool_name(rados_ioctx_t io, char *buf, unsigned maxlen)

Get the pool name of the io context

Parameters
  • io -- the io context to query

  • buf -- pointer to buffer where name will be stored

  • maxlen -- size of buffer where name will be stored

Returns

length of string stored, or -ERANGE if buffer too small

Object Locators

void rados_ioctx_locator_set_key(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *key)

Set the key for mapping objects to pgs within an io context.

The key is used instead of the object name to determine which placement groups an object is put in. This affects all subsequent operations of the io context - until a different locator key is set, all objects in this io context will be placed in the same pg.

Parameters
  • io -- the io context to change

  • key -- the key to use as the object locator, or NULL to discard any previously set key

void rados_ioctx_set_namespace(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *nspace)

Set the namespace for objects within an io context

The namespace specification further refines a pool into different domains. The mapping of objects to pgs is also based on this value.

Parameters
  • io -- the io context to change

  • nspace -- the name to use as the namespace, or NULL use the default namespace

int rados_ioctx_get_namespace(rados_ioctx_t io, char *buf, unsigned maxlen)

Get the namespace for objects within the io context

Parameters
  • io -- the io context to query

  • buf -- pointer to buffer where name will be stored

  • maxlen -- size of buffer where name will be stored

Returns

length of string stored, or -ERANGE if buffer too small

Listing Objects

int rados_nobjects_list_open(rados_ioctx_t io, rados_list_ctx_t *ctx)

Start listing objects in a pool

Parameters
  • io -- the pool to list from

  • ctx -- the handle to store list context in

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

uint32_t rados_nobjects_list_get_pg_hash_position(rados_list_ctx_t ctx)

Return hash position of iterator, rounded to the current PG

Parameters
  • ctx -- iterator marking where you are in the listing

Returns

current hash position, rounded to the current pg

uint32_t rados_nobjects_list_seek(rados_list_ctx_t ctx, uint32_t pos)

Reposition object iterator to a different hash position

Parameters
  • ctx -- iterator marking where you are in the listing

  • pos -- hash position to move to

Returns

actual (rounded) position we moved to

uint32_t rados_nobjects_list_seek_cursor(rados_list_ctx_t ctx, rados_object_list_cursor cursor)

Reposition object iterator to a different position

Parameters
  • ctx -- iterator marking where you are in the listing

  • cursor -- position to move to

Returns

rounded position we moved to

int rados_nobjects_list_get_cursor(rados_list_ctx_t ctx, rados_object_list_cursor *cursor)

Reposition object iterator to a different position

The returned handle must be released with rados_object_list_cursor_free().

Parameters
  • ctx -- iterator marking where you are in the listing

  • cursor -- where to store cursor

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_nobjects_list_next(rados_list_ctx_t ctx, const char **entry, const char **key, const char **nspace)

Get the next object name and locator in the pool

entry and *key are valid until next call to rados_nobjects_list_

Parameters
  • ctx -- iterator marking where you are in the listing

  • entry -- where to store the name of the entry

  • key -- where to store the object locator (set to NULL to ignore)

  • nspace -- where to store the object namespace (set to NULL to ignore)

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Returns

-ENOENT when there are no more objects to list

int rados_nobjects_list_next2(rados_list_ctx_t ctx, const char **entry, const char **key, const char **nspace, size_t *entry_size, size_t *key_size, size_t *nspace_size)

Get the next object name, locator and their sizes in the pool

The sizes allow to list objects with \0 (the NUL character) in .e.g entry. Is is unusual see such object names but a bug in a client has risen the need to handle them as well. *entry and *key are valid until next call to rados_nobjects_list_

Parameters
  • ctx -- iterator marking where you are in the listing

  • entry -- where to store the name of the entry

  • key -- where to store the object locator (set to NULL to ignore)

  • nspace -- where to store the object namespace (set to NULL to ignore)

  • entry_size -- where to store the size of name of the entry

  • key_size -- where to store the size of object locator (set to NULL to ignore)

  • nspace_size -- where to store the size of object namespace (set to NULL to ignore)

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Returns

-ENOENT when there are no more objects to list

void rados_nobjects_list_close(rados_list_ctx_t ctx)

Close the object listing handle.

This should be called when the handle is no longer needed. The handle should not be used after it has been closed.

Parameters
  • ctx -- the handle to close

rados_object_list_cursor rados_object_list_begin(rados_ioctx_t io)

Get cursor handle pointing to the beginning of a pool.

This is an opaque handle pointing to the start of a pool. It must be released with rados_object_list_cursor_free().

Parameters
  • io -- ioctx for the pool

Returns

handle for the pool, NULL on error (pool does not exist)

rados_object_list_cursor rados_object_list_end(rados_ioctx_t io)

Get cursor handle pointing to the end of a pool.

This is an opaque handle pointing to the start of a pool. It must be released with rados_object_list_cursor_free().

Parameters
  • io -- ioctx for the pool

Returns

handle for the pool, NULL on error (pool does not exist)

int rados_object_list_is_end(rados_ioctx_t io, rados_object_list_cursor cur)

Check if a cursor has reached the end of a pool

Parameters
  • io -- ioctx

  • cur -- cursor

Returns

1 if the cursor has reached the end of the pool, 0 otherwise

void rados_object_list_cursor_free(rados_ioctx_t io, rados_object_list_cursor cur)

Release a cursor

Release a cursor. The handle may not be used after this point.

Parameters
  • io -- ioctx

  • cur -- cursor

int rados_object_list_cursor_cmp(rados_ioctx_t io, rados_object_list_cursor lhs, rados_object_list_cursor rhs)

Compare two cursor positions

Compare two cursors, and indicate whether the first cursor precedes, matches, or follows the second.

Parameters
  • io -- ioctx

  • lhs -- first cursor

  • rhs -- second cursor

Returns

-1, 0, or 1 for lhs < rhs, lhs == rhs, or lhs > rhs

int rados_object_list(rados_ioctx_t io, const rados_object_list_cursor start, const rados_object_list_cursor finish, const size_t result_size, const char *filter_buf, const size_t filter_buf_len, rados_object_list_item *results, rados_object_list_cursor *next)
Returns

the number of items set in the results array

void rados_object_list_free(const size_t result_size, rados_object_list_item *results)
void rados_object_list_slice(rados_ioctx_t io, const rados_object_list_cursor start, const rados_object_list_cursor finish, const size_t n, const size_t m, rados_object_list_cursor *split_start, rados_object_list_cursor *split_finish)

Obtain cursors delineating a subset of a range. Use this when you want to split up the work of iterating over the global namespace. Expected use case is when you are iterating in parallel, with m workers, and each worker taking an id n.

Parameters
  • io -- ioctx

  • start -- start of the range to be sliced up (inclusive)

  • finish -- end of the range to be sliced up (exclusive)

  • n -- which of the m chunks you would like to get cursors for

  • m -- how many chunks to divide start-finish into

  • split_start -- cursor populated with start of the subrange (inclusive)

  • split_finish -- cursor populated with end of the subrange (exclusive)

Snapshots

RADOS snapshots are based upon sequence numbers that form a snapshot context. They are pool-specific. The snapshot context consists of the current snapshot sequence number for a pool, and an array of sequence numbers at which snapshots were taken, in descending order. Whenever a snapshot is created or deleted, the snapshot sequence number for the pool is increased. To add a new snapshot, the new snapshot sequence number must be increased and added to the snapshot context.

There are two ways to manage these snapshot contexts:

  1. within the RADOS cluster These are called pool snapshots, and store the snapshot context in the OSDMap. These represent a snapshot of all the objects in a pool.

  2. within the RADOS clients These are called self-managed snapshots, and push the responsibility for keeping track of the snapshot context to the clients. For every write, the client must send the snapshot context. In librados, this is accomplished with rados_selfmanaged_snap_set_write_ctx(). These are more difficult to manage, but are restricted to specific objects instead of applying to an entire pool.

int rados_ioctx_snap_create(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *snapname)

Create a pool-wide snapshot

Parameters
  • io -- the pool to snapshot

  • snapname -- the name of the snapshot

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_ioctx_snap_remove(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *snapname)

Delete a pool snapshot

Parameters
  • io -- the pool to delete the snapshot from

  • snapname -- which snapshot to delete

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_ioctx_snap_rollback(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, const char *snapname)

Rollback an object to a pool snapshot

The contents of the object will be the same as when the snapshot was taken.

Parameters
  • io -- the pool in which the object is stored

  • oid -- the name of the object to rollback

  • snapname -- which snapshot to rollback to

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_rollback(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, const char *snapname) __attribute__((deprecated))

Warning

Deprecated: Use rados_ioctx_snap_rollback() instead

void rados_ioctx_snap_set_read(rados_ioctx_t io, rados_snap_t snap)

Set the snapshot from which reads are performed.

Subsequent reads will return data as it was at the time of that snapshot.

Parameters
  • io -- the io context to change

  • snap -- the id of the snapshot to set, or LIBRADOS_SNAP_HEAD for no snapshot (i.e. normal operation)

int rados_ioctx_selfmanaged_snap_create(rados_ioctx_t io, rados_snap_t *snapid)

Allocate an ID for a self-managed snapshot

Get a unique ID to put in the snaphot context to create a snapshot. A clone of an object is not created until a write with the new snapshot context is completed.

Parameters
  • io -- the pool in which the snapshot will exist

  • snapid -- where to store the newly allocated snapshot ID

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

void rados_aio_ioctx_selfmanaged_snap_create(rados_ioctx_t io, rados_snap_t *snapid, rados_completion_t completion)
int rados_ioctx_selfmanaged_snap_remove(rados_ioctx_t io, rados_snap_t snapid)

Remove a self-managed snapshot

This increases the snapshot sequence number, which will cause snapshots to be removed lazily.

Parameters
  • io -- the pool in which the snapshot will exist

  • snapid -- where to store the newly allocated snapshot ID

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

void rados_aio_ioctx_selfmanaged_snap_remove(rados_ioctx_t io, rados_snap_t snapid, rados_completion_t completion)
int rados_ioctx_selfmanaged_snap_rollback(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, rados_snap_t snapid)

Rollback an object to a self-managed snapshot

The contents of the object will be the same as when the snapshot was taken.

Parameters
  • io -- the pool in which the object is stored

  • oid -- the name of the object to rollback

  • snapid -- which snapshot to rollback to

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_ioctx_selfmanaged_snap_set_write_ctx(rados_ioctx_t io, rados_snap_t seq, rados_snap_t *snaps, int num_snaps)

Set the snapshot context for use when writing to objects

This is stored in the io context, and applies to all future writes.

Parameters
  • io -- the io context to change

  • seq -- the newest snapshot sequence number for the pool

  • snaps -- array of snapshots in sorted by descending id

  • num_snaps -- how many snaphosts are in the snaps array

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Returns

-EINVAL if snaps are not in descending order

int rados_ioctx_snap_list(rados_ioctx_t io, rados_snap_t *snaps, int maxlen)

List all the ids of pool snapshots

If the output array does not have enough space to fit all the snapshots, -ERANGE is returned and the caller should retry with a larger array.

Parameters
  • io -- the pool to read from

  • snaps -- where to store the results

  • maxlen -- the number of rados_snap_t that fit in the snaps array

Returns

number of snapshots on success, negative error code on failure

Returns

-ERANGE is returned if the snaps array is too short

int rados_ioctx_snap_lookup(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *name, rados_snap_t *id)

Get the id of a pool snapshot

Parameters
  • io -- the pool to read from

  • name -- the snapshot to find

  • id -- where to store the result

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_ioctx_snap_get_name(rados_ioctx_t io, rados_snap_t id, char *name, int maxlen)

Get the name of a pool snapshot

Parameters
  • io -- the pool to read from

  • id -- the snapshot to find

  • name -- where to store the result

  • maxlen -- the size of the name array

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Returns

-ERANGE if the name array is too small

int rados_ioctx_snap_get_stamp(rados_ioctx_t io, rados_snap_t id, time_t *t)

Find when a pool snapshot occurred

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the snapshot was taken in

  • id -- the snapshot to lookup

  • t -- where to store the result

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Synchronous I/O

Writes are replicated to a number of OSDs based on the configuration of the pool they are in. These write functions block until data is in memory on all replicas of the object they’re writing to - they are equivalent to doing the corresponding asynchronous write, and the calling rados_ioctx_wait_for_complete(). For greater data safety, use the asynchronous functions and rados_aio_wait_for_safe().

uint64_t rados_get_last_version(rados_ioctx_t io)

Return the version of the last object read or written to.

This exposes the internal version number of the last object read or written via this io context

Parameters
  • io -- the io context to check

Returns

last read or written object version

int rados_write(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, const char *buf, size_t len, uint64_t off)

Write len bytes from buf into the oid object, starting at offset off. The value of len must be <= UINT_MAX/2.

Note

This will never return a positive value not equal to len.

Parameters
  • io -- the io context in which the write will occur

  • oid -- name of the object

  • buf -- data to write

  • len -- length of the data, in bytes

  • off -- byte offset in the object to begin writing at

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_write_full(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, const char *buf, size_t len)

Write len bytes from buf into the oid object. The value of len must be <= UINT_MAX/2.

The object is filled with the provided data. If the object exists, it is atomically truncated and then written.

Parameters
  • io -- the io context in which the write will occur

  • oid -- name of the object

  • buf -- data to write

  • len -- length of the data, in bytes

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_writesame(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, const char *buf, size_t data_len, size_t write_len, uint64_t off)

Write the same data_len bytes from buf multiple times into the oid object. write_len bytes are written in total, which must be a multiple of data_len. The value of write_len and data_len must be <= UINT_MAX/2.

Parameters
  • io -- the io context in which the write will occur

  • oid -- name of the object

  • buf -- data to write

  • data_len -- length of the data, in bytes

  • write_len -- the total number of bytes to write

  • off -- byte offset in the object to begin writing at

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_append(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, const char *buf, size_t len)

Append len bytes from buf into the oid object. The value of len must be <= UINT_MAX/2.

Parameters
  • io -- the context to operate in

  • oid -- the name of the object

  • buf -- the data to append

  • len -- length of buf (in bytes)

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_read(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, char *buf, size_t len, uint64_t off)

Read data from an object

The io context determines the snapshot to read from, if any was set by rados_ioctx_snap_set_read().

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which to perform the read

  • oid -- the name of the object to read from

  • buf -- where to store the results

  • len -- the number of bytes to read

  • off -- the offset to start reading from in the object

Returns

number of bytes read on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_checksum(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, rados_checksum_type_t type, const char *init_value, size_t init_value_len, size_t len, uint64_t off, size_t chunk_size, char *pchecksum, size_t checksum_len)

Compute checksum from object data

The io context determines the snapshot to checksum, if any was set by rados_ioctx_snap_set_read(). The length of the init_value and resulting checksum are dependent upon the checksum type:

XXHASH64: le64 XXHASH32: le32 CRC32C: le32

The checksum result is encoded the following manner:

le32 num_checksum_chunks { leXX checksum for chunk (where XX = appropriate size for the checksum type) } * num_checksum_chunks

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which to perform the checksum

  • oid -- the name of the object to checksum

  • type -- the checksum algorithm to utilize

  • init_value -- the init value for the algorithm

  • init_value_len -- the length of the init value

  • len -- the number of bytes to checksum

  • off -- the offset to start checksumming in the object

  • chunk_size -- optional length-aligned chunk size for checksums

  • pchecksum -- where to store the checksum result

  • checksum_len -- the number of bytes available for the result

Returns

negative error code on failure

int rados_remove(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid)

Delete an object

Note

This does not delete any snapshots of the object.

Parameters
  • io -- the pool to delete the object from

  • oid -- the name of the object to delete

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_trunc(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, uint64_t size)

Resize an object

If this enlarges the object, the new area is logically filled with zeroes. If this shrinks the object, the excess data is removed.

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which to truncate

  • oid -- the name of the object

  • size -- the new size of the object in bytes

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_cmpext(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, const char *cmp_buf, size_t cmp_len, uint64_t off)

Compare an on-disk object range with a buffer

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which to perform the comparison

  • o -- name of the object

  • cmp_buf -- buffer containing bytes to be compared with object contents

  • cmp_len -- length to compare and size of cmp_buf in bytes

  • off -- object byte offset at which to start the comparison

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure, (-MAX_ERRNO - mismatch_off) on mismatch

Xattrs

Extended attributes are stored as extended attributes on the files representing an object on the OSDs. Thus, they have the same limitations as the underlying filesystem. On ext4, this means that the total data stored in xattrs cannot exceed 4KB.

int rados_getxattr(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, const char *name, char *buf, size_t len)

Get the value of an extended attribute on an object.

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which the attribute is read

  • o -- name of the object

  • name -- which extended attribute to read

  • buf -- where to store the result

  • len -- size of buf in bytes

Returns

length of xattr value on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_setxattr(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, const char *name, const char *buf, size_t len)

Set an extended attribute on an object.

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which xattr is set

  • o -- name of the object

  • name -- which extended attribute to set

  • buf -- what to store in the xattr

  • len -- the number of bytes in buf

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_rmxattr(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, const char *name)

Delete an extended attribute from an object.

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which to delete the xattr

  • o -- the name of the object

  • name -- which xattr to delete

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_getxattrs(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, rados_xattrs_iter_t *iter)

Start iterating over xattrs on an object.

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which to list xattrs

  • oid -- name of the object

  • iter -- where to store the iterator

Post

iter is a valid iterator

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_getxattrs_next(rados_xattrs_iter_t iter, const char **name, const char **val, size_t *len)

Get the next xattr on the object

Parameters
  • iter -- iterator to advance

  • name -- where to store the name of the next xattr

  • val -- where to store the value of the next xattr

  • len -- the number of bytes in val

Pre

iter is a valid iterator

Post

name is the NULL-terminated name of the next xattr, and val contains the value of the xattr, which is of length len. If the end of the list has been reached, name and val are NULL, and len is 0.

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

void rados_getxattrs_end(rados_xattrs_iter_t iter)

Close the xattr iterator.

iter should not be used after this is called.

Parameters
  • iter -- the iterator to close

Asynchronous Xattrs

Extended attributes are stored as extended attributes on the files representing an object on the OSDs. Thus, they have the same limitations as the underlying filesystem. On ext4, this means that the total data stored in xattrs cannot exceed 4KB.

int rados_aio_getxattr(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, rados_completion_t completion, const char *name, char *buf, size_t len)

Asynchronously get the value of an extended attribute on an object.

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which the attribute is read

  • o -- name of the object

  • completion -- what to do when the getxattr completes

  • name -- which extended attribute to read

  • buf -- where to store the result

  • len -- size of buf in bytes

Returns

length of xattr value on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_aio_setxattr(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, rados_completion_t completion, const char *name, const char *buf, size_t len)

Asynchronously set an extended attribute on an object.

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which xattr is set

  • o -- name of the object

  • completion -- what to do when the setxattr completes

  • name -- which extended attribute to set

  • buf -- what to store in the xattr

  • len -- the number of bytes in buf

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_aio_rmxattr(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, rados_completion_t completion, const char *name)

Asynchronously delete an extended attribute from an object.

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which to delete the xattr

  • o -- the name of the object

  • completion -- what to do when the rmxattr completes

  • name -- which xattr to delete

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_aio_getxattrs(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, rados_completion_t completion, rados_xattrs_iter_t *iter)

Asynchronously start iterating over xattrs on an object.

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which to list xattrs

  • oid -- name of the object

  • completion -- what to do when the getxattrs completes

  • iter -- where to store the iterator

Post

iter is a valid iterator

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Hints

int rados_set_alloc_hint(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, uint64_t expected_object_size, uint64_t expected_write_size)

Set allocation hint for an object

This is an advisory operation, it will always succeed (as if it was submitted with a LIBRADOS_OP_FLAG_FAILOK flag set) and is not guaranteed to do anything on the backend.

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the object is in

  • o -- the name of the object

  • expected_object_size -- expected size of the object, in bytes

  • expected_write_size -- expected size of writes to the object, in bytes

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_set_alloc_hint2(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, uint64_t expected_object_size, uint64_t expected_write_size, uint32_t flags)

Set allocation hint for an object

This is an advisory operation, it will always succeed (as if it was submitted with a LIBRADOS_OP_FLAG_FAILOK flag set) and is not guaranteed to do anything on the backend.

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the object is in

  • o -- the name of the object

  • expected_object_size -- expected size of the object, in bytes

  • expected_write_size -- expected size of writes to the object, in bytes

  • flags -- hints about future IO patterns

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Object Operations

A single rados operation can do multiple operations on one object atomically. The whole operation will succeed or fail, and no partial results will be visible.

Operations may be either reads, which can return data, or writes, which cannot. The effects of writes are applied and visible all at once, so an operation that sets an xattr and then checks its value will not see the updated value.

rados_write_op_t rados_create_write_op(void)

Create a new rados_write_op_t write operation. This will store all actions to be performed atomically. You must call rados_release_write_op when you are finished with it.

Note

the ownership of a write operartion is passed to the function performing the operation, so the same instance of rados_write_op_t cannot be used again after being performed.

Returns

non-NULL on success, NULL on memory allocation error.

void rados_release_write_op(rados_write_op_t write_op)

Free a rados_write_op_t, must be called when you’re done with it.

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to deallocate, created with rados_create_write_op

void rados_write_op_set_flags(rados_write_op_t write_op, int flags)

Set flags for the last operation added to this write_op. At least one op must have been added to the write_op.

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • flags -- see librados.h constants beginning with LIBRADOS_OP_FLAG

void rados_write_op_assert_exists(rados_write_op_t write_op)

Ensure that the object exists before writing

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

void rados_write_op_assert_version(rados_write_op_t write_op, uint64_t ver)

Ensure that the object exists and that its internal version number is equal to “ver” before writing. “ver” should be a version number previously obtained with rados_get_last_version().

  • If the object’s version is greater than the asserted version then rados_write_op_operate will return -ERANGE instead of executing the op.

  • If the object’s version is less than the asserted version then rados_write_op_operate will return -EOVERFLOW instead of executing the op.

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • ver -- object version number

void rados_write_op_cmpext(rados_write_op_t write_op, const char *cmp_buf, size_t cmp_len, uint64_t off, int *prval)

Ensure that given object range (extent) satisfies comparison.

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • cmp_buf -- buffer containing bytes to be compared with object contents

  • cmp_len -- length to compare and size of cmp_buf in bytes

  • off -- object byte offset at which to start the comparison

  • prval -- returned result of comparison, 0 on success, negative error code on failure, (-MAX_ERRNO - mismatch_off) on mismatch

void rados_write_op_cmpxattr(rados_write_op_t write_op, const char *name, uint8_t comparison_operator, const char *value, size_t value_len)

Ensure that given xattr satisfies comparison. If the comparison is not satisfied, the return code of the operation will be -ECANCELED

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • name -- name of the xattr to look up

  • comparison_operator -- currently undocumented, look for LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_EQ in librados.h

  • value -- buffer to compare actual xattr value to

  • value_len -- length of buffer to compare actual xattr value to

void rados_write_op_omap_cmp(rados_write_op_t write_op, const char *key, uint8_t comparison_operator, const char *val, size_t val_len, int *prval)

Ensure that the an omap value satisfies a comparison, with the supplied value on the right hand side (i.e. for OP_LT, the comparison is actual_value < value.

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • key -- which omap value to compare

  • comparison_operator -- one of LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_EQ, LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_LT, or LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_GT

  • val -- value to compare with

  • val_len -- length of value in bytes

  • prval -- where to store the return value from this action

void rados_write_op_omap_cmp2(rados_write_op_t write_op, const char *key, uint8_t comparison_operator, const char *val, size_t key_len, size_t val_len, int *prval)

Ensure that the an omap value satisfies a comparison, with the supplied value on the right hand side (i.e. for OP_LT, the comparison is actual_value < value.

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • key -- which omap value to compare

  • comparison_operator -- one of LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_EQ, LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_LT, or LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_GT

  • val -- value to compare with

  • key_len -- length of key in bytes

  • val_len -- length of value in bytes

  • prval -- where to store the return value from this action

void rados_write_op_setxattr(rados_write_op_t write_op, const char *name, const char *value, size_t value_len)

Set an xattr

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • name -- name of the xattr

  • value -- buffer to set xattr to

  • value_len -- length of buffer to set xattr to

void rados_write_op_rmxattr(rados_write_op_t write_op, const char *name)

Remove an xattr

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • name -- name of the xattr to remove

void rados_write_op_create(rados_write_op_t write_op, int exclusive, const char *category)

Create the object

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • exclusive -- set to either LIBRADOS_CREATE_EXCLUSIVE or LIBRADOS_CREATE_IDEMPOTENT will error if the object already exists.

  • category -- category string (DEPRECATED, HAS NO EFFECT)

void rados_write_op_write(rados_write_op_t write_op, const char *buffer, size_t len, uint64_t offset)

Write to offset

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • offset -- offset to write to

  • buffer -- bytes to write

  • len -- length of buffer

void rados_write_op_write_full(rados_write_op_t write_op, const char *buffer, size_t len)

Write whole object, atomically replacing it.

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • buffer -- bytes to write

  • len -- length of buffer

void rados_write_op_writesame(rados_write_op_t write_op, const char *buffer, size_t data_len, size_t write_len, uint64_t offset)

Write the same buffer multiple times

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • buffer -- bytes to write

  • data_len -- length of buffer

  • write_len -- total number of bytes to write, as a multiple of data_len

  • offset -- offset to write to

void rados_write_op_append(rados_write_op_t write_op, const char *buffer, size_t len)

Append to end of object.

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • buffer -- bytes to write

  • len -- length of buffer

void rados_write_op_remove(rados_write_op_t write_op)

Remove object

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

void rados_write_op_truncate(rados_write_op_t write_op, uint64_t offset)

Truncate an object

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • offset -- Offset to truncate to

void rados_write_op_zero(rados_write_op_t write_op, uint64_t offset, uint64_t len)

Zero part of an object

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • offset -- Offset to zero

  • len -- length to zero

void rados_write_op_exec(rados_write_op_t write_op, const char *cls, const char *method, const char *in_buf, size_t in_len, int *prval)

Execute an OSD class method on an object See rados_exec() for general description.

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • cls -- the name of the class

  • method -- the name of the method

  • in_buf -- where to find input

  • in_len -- length of in_buf in bytes

  • prval -- where to store the return value from the method

void rados_write_op_omap_set(rados_write_op_t write_op, char const *const *keys, char const *const *vals, const size_t *lens, size_t num)

Set key/value pairs on an object

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • keys -- array of null-terminated char arrays representing keys to set

  • vals -- array of pointers to values to set

  • lens -- array of lengths corresponding to each value

  • num -- number of key/value pairs to set

void rados_write_op_omap_set2(rados_write_op_t write_op, char const *const *keys, char const *const *vals, const size_t *key_lens, const size_t *val_lens, size_t num)

Set key/value pairs on an object

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • keys -- array of null-terminated char arrays representing keys to set

  • vals -- array of pointers to values to set

  • key_lens -- array of lengths corresponding to each key

  • val_lens -- array of lengths corresponding to each value

  • num -- number of key/value pairs to set

void rados_write_op_omap_rm_keys(rados_write_op_t write_op, char const *const *keys, size_t keys_len)

Remove key/value pairs from an object

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • keys -- array of null-terminated char arrays representing keys to remove

  • keys_len -- number of key/value pairs to remove

void rados_write_op_omap_rm_keys2(rados_write_op_t write_op, char const *const *keys, const size_t *key_lens, size_t keys_len)

Remove key/value pairs from an object

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • keys -- array of char arrays representing keys to remove

  • key_lens -- array of size_t values representing length of each key

  • keys_len -- number of key/value pairs to remove

void rados_write_op_omap_rm_range2(rados_write_op_t write_op, const char *key_begin, size_t key_begin_len, const char *key_end, size_t key_end_len)

Remove key/value pairs from an object whose keys are in the range [key_begin, key_end)

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • key_begin -- the lower bound of the key range to remove

  • key_begin_len -- length of key_begin

  • key_end -- the upper bound of the key range to remove

  • key_end_len -- length of key_end

void rados_write_op_omap_clear(rados_write_op_t write_op)

Remove all key/value pairs from an object

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

void rados_write_op_set_alloc_hint(rados_write_op_t write_op, uint64_t expected_object_size, uint64_t expected_write_size)

Set allocation hint for an object

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • expected_object_size -- expected size of the object, in bytes

  • expected_write_size -- expected size of writes to the object, in bytes

void rados_write_op_set_alloc_hint2(rados_write_op_t write_op, uint64_t expected_object_size, uint64_t expected_write_size, uint32_t flags)

Set allocation hint for an object

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to add this action to

  • expected_object_size -- expected size of the object, in bytes

  • expected_write_size -- expected size of writes to the object, in bytes

  • flags -- hints about future IO patterns

int rados_write_op_operate(rados_write_op_t write_op, rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, time_t *mtime, int flags)

Perform a write operation synchronously

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to perform

  • io -- the ioctx that the object is in

  • oid -- the object id

  • mtime -- the time to set the mtime to, NULL for the current time

  • flags -- flags to apply to the entire operation (LIBRADOS_OPERATION_*)

int rados_write_op_operate2(rados_write_op_t write_op, rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, struct timespec *mtime, int flags)

Perform a write operation synchronously

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to perform

  • io -- the ioctx that the object is in

  • oid -- the object id

  • mtime -- the time to set the mtime to, NULL for the current time

  • flags -- flags to apply to the entire operation (LIBRADOS_OPERATION_*)

int rados_aio_write_op_operate(rados_write_op_t write_op, rados_ioctx_t io, rados_completion_t completion, const char *oid, time_t *mtime, int flags)

Perform a write operation asynchronously

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to perform

  • io -- the ioctx that the object is in

  • completion -- what to do when operation has been attempted

  • oid -- the object id

  • mtime -- the time to set the mtime to, NULL for the current time

  • flags -- flags to apply to the entire operation (LIBRADOS_OPERATION_*)

int rados_aio_write_op_operate2(rados_write_op_t write_op, rados_ioctx_t io, rados_completion_t completion, const char *oid, struct timespec *mtime, int flags)

Perform a write operation asynchronously

Parameters
  • write_op -- operation to perform

  • io -- the ioctx that the object is in

  • completion -- what to do when operation has been attempted

  • oid -- the object id

  • mtime -- the time to set the mtime to, NULL for the current time

  • flags -- flags to apply to the entire operation (LIBRADOS_OPERATION_*)

rados_read_op_t rados_create_read_op(void)

Create a new rados_read_op_t read operation. This will store all actions to be performed atomically. You must call rados_release_read_op when you are finished with it (after it completes, or you decide not to send it in the first place).

Note

the ownership of a read operartion is passed to the function performing the operation, so the same instance of rados_read_op_t cannot be used again after being performed.

Returns

non-NULL on success, NULL on memory allocation error.

void rados_release_read_op(rados_read_op_t read_op)

Free a rados_read_op_t, must be called when you’re done with it.

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to deallocate, created with rados_create_read_op

void rados_read_op_set_flags(rados_read_op_t read_op, int flags)

Set flags for the last operation added to this read_op. At least one op must have been added to the read_op.

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • flags -- see librados.h constants beginning with LIBRADOS_OP_FLAG

void rados_read_op_assert_exists(rados_read_op_t read_op)

Ensure that the object exists before reading

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

void rados_read_op_assert_version(rados_read_op_t read_op, uint64_t ver)

Ensure that the object exists and that its internal version number is equal to “ver” before reading. “ver” should be a version number previously obtained with rados_get_last_version().

  • If the object’s version is greater than the asserted version then rados_read_op_operate will return -ERANGE instead of executing the op.

  • If the object’s version is less than the asserted version then rados_read_op_operate will return -EOVERFLOW instead of executing the op.

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • ver -- object version number

void rados_read_op_cmpext(rados_read_op_t read_op, const char *cmp_buf, size_t cmp_len, uint64_t off, int *prval)

Ensure that given object range (extent) satisfies comparison.

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • cmp_buf -- buffer containing bytes to be compared with object contents

  • cmp_len -- length to compare and size of cmp_buf in bytes

  • off -- object byte offset at which to start the comparison

  • prval -- returned result of comparison, 0 on success, negative error code on failure, (-MAX_ERRNO - mismatch_off) on mismatch

void rados_read_op_cmpxattr(rados_read_op_t read_op, const char *name, uint8_t comparison_operator, const char *value, size_t value_len)

Ensure that the an xattr satisfies a comparison If the comparison is not satisfied, the return code of the operation will be -ECANCELED

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • name -- name of the xattr to look up

  • comparison_operator -- currently undocumented, look for LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_EQ in librados.h

  • value -- buffer to compare actual xattr value to

  • value_len -- length of buffer to compare actual xattr value to

void rados_read_op_getxattrs(rados_read_op_t read_op, rados_xattrs_iter_t *iter, int *prval)

Start iterating over xattrs on an object.

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • iter -- where to store the iterator

  • prval -- where to store the return value of this action

void rados_read_op_omap_cmp(rados_read_op_t read_op, const char *key, uint8_t comparison_operator, const char *val, size_t val_len, int *prval)

Ensure that the an omap value satisfies a comparison, with the supplied value on the right hand side (i.e. for OP_LT, the comparison is actual_value < value.

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • key -- which omap value to compare

  • comparison_operator -- one of LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_EQ, LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_LT, or LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_GT

  • val -- value to compare with

  • val_len -- length of value in bytes

  • prval -- where to store the return value from this action

void rados_read_op_omap_cmp2(rados_read_op_t read_op, const char *key, uint8_t comparison_operator, const char *val, size_t key_len, size_t val_len, int *prval)

Ensure that the an omap value satisfies a comparison, with the supplied value on the right hand side (i.e. for OP_LT, the comparison is actual_value < value.

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • key -- which omap value to compare

  • comparison_operator -- one of LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_EQ, LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_LT, or LIBRADOS_CMPXATTR_OP_GT

  • val -- value to compare with

  • key_len -- length of key in bytes

  • val_len -- length of value in bytes

  • prval -- where to store the return value from this action

void rados_read_op_stat(rados_read_op_t read_op, uint64_t *psize, time_t *pmtime, int *prval)

Get object size and mtime

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • psize -- where to store object size

  • pmtime -- where to store modification time

  • prval -- where to store the return value of this action

void rados_read_op_stat2(rados_read_op_t read_op, uint64_t *psize, struct timespec *pmtime, int *prval)
void rados_read_op_read(rados_read_op_t read_op, uint64_t offset, size_t len, char *buffer, size_t *bytes_read, int *prval)

Read bytes from offset into buffer.

prlen will be filled with the number of bytes read if successful. A short read can only occur if the read reaches the end of the object.

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • offset -- offset to read from

  • len -- length of buffer

  • buffer -- where to put the data

  • bytes_read -- where to store the number of bytes read by this action

  • prval -- where to store the return value of this action

void rados_read_op_checksum(rados_read_op_t read_op, rados_checksum_type_t type, const char *init_value, size_t init_value_len, uint64_t offset, size_t len, size_t chunk_size, char *pchecksum, size_t checksum_len, int *prval)

Compute checksum from object data

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • type -- the checksum algorithm to utilize

  • init_value -- the init value for the algorithm

  • init_value_len -- the length of the init value

  • offset -- the offset to start checksumming in the object

  • len -- the number of bytes to checksum

  • chunk_size -- optional length-aligned chunk size for checksums

  • pchecksum -- where to store the checksum result for this action

  • checksum_len -- the number of bytes available for the result

  • prval -- where to store the return value for this action

void rados_read_op_exec(rados_read_op_t read_op, const char *cls, const char *method, const char *in_buf, size_t in_len, char **out_buf, size_t *out_len, int *prval)

Execute an OSD class method on an object See rados_exec() for general description.

The output buffer is allocated on the heap; the caller is expected to release that memory with rados_buffer_free(). The buffer and length pointers can all be NULL, in which case they are not filled in.

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • cls -- the name of the class

  • method -- the name of the method

  • in_buf -- where to find input

  • in_len -- length of in_buf in bytes

  • out_buf -- where to put librados-allocated output buffer

  • out_len -- length of out_buf in bytes

  • prval -- where to store the return value from the method

void rados_read_op_exec_user_buf(rados_read_op_t read_op, const char *cls, const char *method, const char *in_buf, size_t in_len, char *out_buf, size_t out_len, size_t *used_len, int *prval)

Execute an OSD class method on an object See rados_exec() for general description.

If the output buffer is too small, prval will be set to -ERANGE and used_len will be 0.

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • cls -- the name of the class

  • method -- the name of the method

  • in_buf -- where to find input

  • in_len -- length of in_buf in bytes

  • out_buf -- user-provided buffer to read into

  • out_len -- length of out_buf in bytes

  • used_len -- where to store the number of bytes read into out_buf

  • prval -- where to store the return value from the method

void rados_read_op_omap_get_vals(rados_read_op_t read_op, const char *start_after, const char *filter_prefix, uint64_t max_return, rados_omap_iter_t *iter, int *prval) __attribute__((deprecated))

Start iterating over key/value pairs on an object.

They will be returned sorted by key.

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • start_after -- list keys starting after start_after

  • filter_prefix -- list only keys beginning with filter_prefix

  • max_return -- list no more than max_return key/value pairs

  • iter -- where to store the iterator

  • prval -- where to store the return value from this action

void rados_read_op_omap_get_vals2(rados_read_op_t read_op, const char *start_after, const char *filter_prefix, uint64_t max_return, rados_omap_iter_t *iter, unsigned char *pmore, int *prval)

Start iterating over key/value pairs on an object.

They will be returned sorted by key.

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • start_after -- list keys starting after start_after

  • filter_prefix -- list only keys beginning with filter_prefix

  • max_return -- list no more than max_return key/value pairs

  • iter -- where to store the iterator

  • pmore -- flag indicating whether there are more keys to fetch

  • prval -- where to store the return value from this action

void rados_read_op_omap_get_keys(rados_read_op_t read_op, const char *start_after, uint64_t max_return, rados_omap_iter_t *iter, int *prval) __attribute__((deprecated))

Start iterating over keys on an object.

They will be returned sorted by key, and the iterator will fill in NULL for all values if specified.

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • start_after -- list keys starting after start_after

  • max_return -- list no more than max_return keys

  • iter -- where to store the iterator

  • prval -- where to store the return value from this action

void rados_read_op_omap_get_keys2(rados_read_op_t read_op, const char *start_after, uint64_t max_return, rados_omap_iter_t *iter, unsigned char *pmore, int *prval)

Start iterating over keys on an object.

They will be returned sorted by key, and the iterator will fill in NULL for all values if specified.

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • start_after -- list keys starting after start_after

  • max_return -- list no more than max_return keys

  • iter -- where to store the iterator

  • pmore -- flag indicating whether there are more keys to fetch

  • prval -- where to store the return value from this action

void rados_read_op_omap_get_vals_by_keys(rados_read_op_t read_op, char const *const *keys, size_t keys_len, rados_omap_iter_t *iter, int *prval)

Start iterating over specific key/value pairs

They will be returned sorted by key.

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • keys -- array of pointers to null-terminated keys to get

  • keys_len -- the number of strings in keys

  • iter -- where to store the iterator

  • prval -- where to store the return value from this action

void rados_read_op_omap_get_vals_by_keys2(rados_read_op_t read_op, char const *const *keys, size_t num_keys, const size_t *key_lens, rados_omap_iter_t *iter, int *prval)

Start iterating over specific key/value pairs

They will be returned sorted by key.

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to add this action to

  • keys -- array of pointers to keys to get

  • num_keys -- the number of strings in keys

  • key_lens -- array of size_t’s describing each key len (in bytes)

  • iter -- where to store the iterator

  • prval -- where to store the return value from this action

int rados_read_op_operate(rados_read_op_t read_op, rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, int flags)

Perform a read operation synchronously

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to perform

  • io -- the ioctx that the object is in

  • oid -- the object id

  • flags -- flags to apply to the entire operation (LIBRADOS_OPERATION_*)

int rados_aio_read_op_operate(rados_read_op_t read_op, rados_ioctx_t io, rados_completion_t completion, const char *oid, int flags)

Perform a read operation asynchronously

Parameters
  • read_op -- operation to perform

  • io -- the ioctx that the object is in

  • completion -- what to do when operation has been attempted

  • oid -- the object id

  • flags -- flags to apply to the entire operation (LIBRADOS_OPERATION_*)

Defines

CEPH_OSD_TMAP_HDR
CEPH_OSD_TMAP_SET
CEPH_OSD_TMAP_CREATE
CEPH_OSD_TMAP_RM
LIBRADOS_VER_MAJOR
LIBRADOS_VER_MINOR
LIBRADOS_VER_EXTRA
LIBRADOS_VERSION(maj, min, extra)
LIBRADOS_VERSION_CODE
LIBRADOS_SUPPORTS_WATCH
LIBRADOS_SUPPORTS_SERVICES
LIBRADOS_SUPPORTS_GETADDRS
LIBRADOS_SUPPORTS_APP_METADATA
LIBRADOS_LOCK_FLAG_RENEW
LIBRADOS_LOCK_FLAG_MAY_RENEW
LIBRADOS_LOCK_FLAG_MUST_RENEW
LIBRADOS_CREATE_EXCLUSIVE
LIBRADOS_CREATE_IDEMPOTENT
CEPH_RADOS_API
LIBRADOS_SNAP_HEAD
LIBRADOS_SNAP_DIR
VOIDPTR_RADOS_T

Typedefs

typedef void *rados_t

A handle for interacting with a RADOS cluster. It encapsulates all RADOS client configuration, including username, key for authentication, logging, and debugging. Talking to different clusters &#8212; or to the same cluster with different users &#8212; requires different cluster handles.

typedef void *rados_config_t

A handle for the ceph configuration context for the rados_t cluster instance. This can be used to share configuration context/state (e.g., logging configuration) between librados instance.

Warning

The config context does not have independent reference counting. As such, a rados_config_t handle retrieved from a given rados_t is only valid as long as that rados_t.

typedef void *rados_ioctx_t

An io context encapsulates a few settings for all I/O operations done on it:

  • pool - set when the io context is created (see rados_ioctx_create())

  • snapshot context for writes (see rados_ioctx_selfmanaged_snap_set_write_ctx())

  • snapshot id to read from (see rados_ioctx_snap_set_read())

  • object locator for all single-object operations (see rados_ioctx_locator_set_key())

  • namespace for all single-object operations (see rados_ioctx_set_namespace()). Set to LIBRADOS_ALL_NSPACES before rados_nobjects_list_open() will list all objects in all namespaces.

Warning

Changing any of these settings is not thread-safe - librados users must synchronize any of these changes on their own, or use separate io contexts for each thread

typedef void *rados_list_ctx_t

An iterator for listing the objects in a pool. Used with rados_nobjects_list_open(), rados_nobjects_list_next(), rados_nobjects_list_next2(), and rados_nobjects_list_close().

typedef void *rados_object_list_cursor

The cursor used with rados_enumerate_objects and accompanying methods.

typedef uint64_t rados_snap_t

The id of a snapshot.

typedef void *rados_xattrs_iter_t

An iterator for listing extended attrbutes on an object. Used with rados_getxattrs(), rados_getxattrs_next(), and rados_getxattrs_end().

typedef void *rados_omap_iter_t

An iterator for listing omap key/value pairs on an object. Used with rados_read_op_omap_get_keys(), rados_read_op_omap_get_vals(), rados_read_op_omap_get_vals_by_keys(), rados_omap_get_next(), and rados_omap_get_end().

typedef void *rados_write_op_t

An object write operation stores a number of operations which can be executed atomically. For usage, see:

  • Creation and deletion: rados_create_write_op() rados_release_write_op()

  • Extended attribute manipulation: rados_write_op_cmpxattr() rados_write_op_cmpxattr(), rados_write_op_setxattr(), rados_write_op_rmxattr()

  • Object map key/value pairs: rados_write_op_omap_set(), rados_write_op_omap_rm_keys(), rados_write_op_omap_clear(), rados_write_op_omap_cmp()

  • Object properties: rados_write_op_assert_exists(), rados_write_op_assert_version()

  • Creating objects: rados_write_op_create()

  • IO on objects: rados_write_op_append(), rados_write_op_write(), rados_write_op_zero rados_write_op_write_full(), rados_write_op_writesame(), rados_write_op_remove, rados_write_op_truncate(), rados_write_op_zero(), rados_write_op_cmpext()

  • Hints: rados_write_op_set_alloc_hint()

  • Performing the operation: rados_write_op_operate(), rados_aio_write_op_operate()

typedef void *rados_read_op_t

An object read operation stores a number of operations which can be executed atomically. For usage, see:

  • Creation and deletion: rados_create_read_op() rados_release_read_op()

  • Extended attribute manipulation: rados_read_op_cmpxattr(), rados_read_op_getxattr(), rados_read_op_getxattrs()

  • Object map key/value pairs: rados_read_op_omap_get_vals(), rados_read_op_omap_get_keys(), rados_read_op_omap_get_vals_by_keys(), rados_read_op_omap_cmp()

  • Object properties: rados_read_op_stat(), rados_read_op_assert_exists(), rados_read_op_assert_version()

  • IO on objects: rados_read_op_read(), rados_read_op_checksum(), rados_read_op_cmpext()

  • Custom operations: rados_read_op_exec(), rados_read_op_exec_user_buf()

  • Request properties: rados_read_op_set_flags()

  • Performing the operation: rados_read_op_operate(), rados_aio_read_op_operate()

typedef void *rados_completion_t

Represents the state of an asynchronous operation - it contains the return value once the operation completes, and can be used to block until the operation is complete or safe.

Enums

enum [anonymous]

Values:

enumerator LIBRADOS_OP_FLAG_EXCL
enumerator LIBRADOS_OP_FLAG_FAILOK
enumerator LIBRADOS_OP_FLAG_FADVISE_RANDOM
enumerator LIBRADOS_OP_FLAG_FADVISE_SEQUENTIAL
enumerator LIBRADOS_OP_FLAG_FADVISE_WILLNEED
enumerator LIBRADOS_OP_FLAG_FADVISE_DONTNEED
enumerator LIBRADOS_OP_FLAG_FADVISE_NOCACHE
enumerator LIBRADOS_OP_FLAG_FADVISE_FUA
enum rados_checksum_type_t

Values:

enumerator LIBRADOS_CHECKSUM_TYPE_XXHASH32
enumerator LIBRADOS_CHECKSUM_TYPE_XXHASH64
enumerator LIBRADOS_CHECKSUM_TYPE_CRC32C

Functions

void rados_version(int *major, int *minor, int *extra)

Get the version of librados.

The version number is major.minor.extra. Note that this is unrelated to the Ceph version number.

TODO: define version semantics, i.e.:

  • incrementing major is for backwards-incompatible changes

  • incrementing minor is for backwards-compatible changes

  • incrementing extra is for bug fixes

Parameters
  • major -- where to store the major version number

  • minor -- where to store the minor version number

  • extra -- where to store the extra version number

int rados_cluster_stat(rados_t cluster, struct rados_cluster_stat_t *result)

Read usage info about the cluster

This tells you total space, space used, space available, and number of objects. These are not updated immediately when data is written, they are eventually consistent.

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster to query

  • result -- where to store the results

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_cluster_fsid(rados_t cluster, char *buf, size_t len)

Get the fsid of the cluster as a hexadecimal string.

The fsid is a unique id of an entire Ceph cluster.

Parameters
  • cluster -- where to get the fsid

  • buf -- where to write the fsid

  • len -- the size of buf in bytes (should be 37)

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Returns

-ERANGE if the buffer is too short to contain the fsid

int rados_wait_for_latest_osdmap(rados_t cluster)

Get/wait for the most recent osdmap

Parameters
  • cluster -- the cluster to shutdown

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_omap_get_next(rados_omap_iter_t iter, char **key, char **val, size_t *len)

Get the next omap key/value pair on the object

Parameters
  • iter -- iterator to advance

  • key -- where to store the key of the next omap entry

  • val -- where to store the value of the next omap entry

  • len -- where to store the number of bytes in val

Pre

iter is a valid iterator

Post

key and val are the next key/value pair. key is null-terminated, and val has length len. If the end of the list has been reached, key and val are NULL, and len is 0. key and val will not be accessible after rados_omap_get_end() is called on iter, so if they are needed after that they should be copied.

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_omap_get_next2(rados_omap_iter_t iter, char **key, char **val, size_t *key_len, size_t *val_len)

Get the next omap key/value pair on the object. Note that it’s perfectly safe to mix calls to rados_omap_get_next and rados_omap_get_next2.

Parameters
  • iter -- iterator to advance

  • key -- where to store the key of the next omap entry

  • val -- where to store the value of the next omap entry

  • key_len -- where to store the number of bytes in key

  • val_len -- where to store the number of bytes in val

Pre

iter is a valid iterator

Post

key and val are the next key/value pair. key has length keylen and val has length vallen. If the end of the list has been reached, key and val are NULL, and keylen and vallen is 0. key and val will not be accessible after rados_omap_get_end() is called on iter, so if they are needed after that they should be copied.

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

unsigned int rados_omap_iter_size(rados_omap_iter_t iter)

Return number of elements in the iterator

Parameters
  • iter -- the iterator of which to return the size

void rados_omap_get_end(rados_omap_iter_t iter)

Close the omap iterator.

iter should not be used after this is called.

Parameters
  • iter -- the iterator to close

int rados_stat(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, uint64_t *psize, time_t *pmtime)

Get object size and most recent update time from the OSD.

Parameters
  • io -- ioctx

  • o -- object name

  • psize -- where to store object size

  • pmtime -- where to store modification time

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_stat2(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, uint64_t *psize, struct timespec *pmtime)
int rados_exec(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, const char *cls, const char *method, const char *in_buf, size_t in_len, char *buf, size_t out_len)

Execute an OSD class method on an object

The OSD has a plugin mechanism for performing complicated operations on an object atomically. These plugins are called classes. This function allows librados users to call the custom methods. The input and output formats are defined by the class. Classes in ceph.git can be found in src/cls subdirectories

Parameters
  • io -- the context in which to call the method

  • oid -- the object to call the method on

  • cls -- the name of the class

  • method -- the name of the method

  • in_buf -- where to find input

  • in_len -- length of in_buf in bytes

  • buf -- where to store output

  • out_len -- length of buf in bytes

Returns

the length of the output, or -ERANGE if out_buf does not have enough space to store it (For methods that return data). For methods that don’t return data, the return value is method-specific.

int rados_cache_pin(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o)

Pin an object in the cache tier

When an object is pinned in the cache tier, it stays in the cache tier, and won’t be flushed out.

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the object is in

  • o -- the object id

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_cache_unpin(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o)

Unpin an object in the cache tier

After an object is unpinned in the cache tier, it can be flushed out

Parameters
  • io -- the pool the object is in

  • o -- the object id

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_lock_exclusive(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *oid, const char *name, const char *cookie, const char *desc, struct timeval *duration, uint8_t flags)

Take an exclusive lock on an object.

Parameters
  • io -- the context to operate in

  • oid -- the name of the object

  • name -- the name of the lock

  • cookie -- user-defined identifier for this instance of the lock

  • desc -- user-defined lock description

  • duration -- the duration of the lock. Set to NULL for infinite duration.

  • flags -- lock flags

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Returns

-EBUSY if the lock is already held by another (client, cookie) pair

Returns

-EEXIST if the lock is already held by the same (client, cookie) pair

int rados_lock_shared(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, const char *name, const char *cookie, const char *tag, const char *desc, struct timeval *duration, uint8_t flags)

Take a shared lock on an object.

Parameters
  • io -- the context to operate in

  • o -- the name of the object

  • name -- the name of the lock

  • cookie -- user-defined identifier for this instance of the lock

  • tag -- The tag of the lock

  • desc -- user-defined lock description

  • duration -- the duration of the lock. Set to NULL for infinite duration.

  • flags -- lock flags

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Returns

-EBUSY if the lock is already held by another (client, cookie) pair

Returns

-EEXIST if the lock is already held by the same (client, cookie) pair

int rados_unlock(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, const char *name, const char *cookie)

Release a shared or exclusive lock on an object.

Parameters
  • io -- the context to operate in

  • o -- the name of the object

  • name -- the name of the lock

  • cookie -- user-defined identifier for the instance of the lock

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Returns

-ENOENT if the lock is not held by the specified (client, cookie) pair

int rados_aio_unlock(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, const char *name, const char *cookie, rados_completion_t completion)

Asynchronous release a shared or exclusive lock on an object.

Parameters
  • io -- the context to operate in

  • o -- the name of the object

  • name -- the name of the lock

  • cookie -- user-defined identifier for the instance of the lock

  • completion -- what to do when operation has been attempted

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

ssize_t rados_list_lockers(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, const char *name, int *exclusive, char *tag, size_t *tag_len, char *clients, size_t *clients_len, char *cookies, size_t *cookies_len, char *addrs, size_t *addrs_len)

List clients that have locked the named object lock and information about the lock.

The number of bytes required in each buffer is put in the corresponding size out parameter. If any of the provided buffers are too short, -ERANGE is returned after these sizes are filled in.

Parameters
  • io -- the context to operate in

  • o -- the name of the object

  • name -- the name of the lock

  • exclusive -- where to store whether the lock is exclusive (1) or shared (0)

  • tag -- where to store the tag associated with the object lock

  • tag_len -- number of bytes in tag buffer

  • clients -- buffer in which locker clients are stored, separated by ‘\0’

  • clients_len -- number of bytes in the clients buffer

  • cookies -- buffer in which locker cookies are stored, separated by ‘\0’

  • cookies_len -- number of bytes in the cookies buffer

  • addrs -- buffer in which locker addresses are stored, separated by ‘\0’

  • addrs_len -- number of bytes in the clients buffer

Returns

number of lockers on success, negative error code on failure

Returns

-ERANGE if any of the buffers are too short

int rados_break_lock(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *o, const char *name, const char *client, const char *cookie)

Releases a shared or exclusive lock on an object, which was taken by the specified client.

Parameters
  • io -- the context to operate in

  • o -- the name of the object

  • name -- the name of the lock

  • client -- the client currently holding the lock

  • cookie -- user-defined identifier for the instance of the lock

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Returns

-ENOENT if the lock is not held by the specified (client, cookie) pair

Returns

-EINVAL if the client cannot be parsed

int rados_blocklist_add(rados_t cluster, char *client_address, uint32_t expire_seconds)

Blocklists the specified client from the OSDs

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle

  • client_address -- client address

  • expire_seconds -- number of seconds to blocklist (0 for default)

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_blacklist_add(rados_t cluster, char *client_address, uint32_t expire_seconds) __attribute__((deprecated))
int rados_getaddrs(rados_t cluster, char **addrs)

Gets addresses of the RADOS session, suitable for blocklisting.

Parameters
  • cluster -- cluster handle

  • addrs -- the output string.

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

void rados_set_osdmap_full_try(rados_ioctx_t io) __attribute__((deprecated))
void rados_unset_osdmap_full_try(rados_ioctx_t io) __attribute__((deprecated))
void rados_set_pool_full_try(rados_ioctx_t io)
void rados_unset_pool_full_try(rados_ioctx_t io)
int rados_application_enable(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *app_name, int force)

Enable an application on a pool

Parameters
  • io -- pool ioctx

  • app_name -- application name

  • force -- 0 if only single application per pool

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_application_list(rados_ioctx_t io, char *values, size_t *values_len)

List all enabled applications

If the provided buffer is too short, the required length is filled in and -ERANGE is returned. Otherwise, the buffers are filled with the application names, with a ‘\0’ after each.

Parameters
  • io -- pool ioctx

  • values -- buffer in which to store application names

  • values_len -- number of bytes in values buffer

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Returns

-ERANGE if either buffer is too short

int rados_application_metadata_get(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *app_name, const char *key, char *value, size_t *value_len)

Get application metadata value from pool

Parameters
  • io -- pool ioctx

  • app_name -- application name

  • key -- metadata key

  • value -- result buffer

  • value_len -- maximum len of value

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_application_metadata_set(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *app_name, const char *key, const char *value)

Set application metadata on a pool

Parameters
  • io -- pool ioctx

  • app_name -- application name

  • key -- metadata key

  • value -- metadata key

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_application_metadata_remove(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *app_name, const char *key)

Remove application metadata from a pool

Parameters
  • io -- pool ioctx

  • app_name -- application name

  • key -- metadata key

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

int rados_application_metadata_list(rados_ioctx_t io, const char *app_name, char *keys, size_t *key_len, char *values, size_t *vals_len)

List all metadata key/value pairs associated with an application.

This iterates over all metadata, key_len and val_len are filled in with the number of bytes put into the keys and values buffers.

If the provided buffers are too short, the required lengths are filled in and -ERANGE is returned. Otherwise, the buffers are filled with the keys and values of the metadata, with a ‘\0’ after each.

Parameters
  • io -- pool ioctx

  • app_name -- application name

  • keys -- buffer in which to store key names

  • key_len -- number of bytes in keys buffer

  • values -- buffer in which to store values

  • vals_len -- number of bytes in values buffer

Returns

0 on success, negative error code on failure

Returns

-ERANGE if either buffer is too short

int rados_objects_list_open(rados_ioctx_t io, rados_list_ctx_t *ctx) __attribute__((deprecated))
uint32_t rados_objects_list_get_pg_hash_position(rados_list_ctx_t ctx) __attribute__((deprecated))
uint32_t rados_objects_list_seek(rados_list_ctx_t ctx, uint32_t pos) __attribute__((deprecated))
int rados_objects_list_next(rados_list_ctx_t ctx, const char **entry, const char **key) __attribute__((deprecated))
void rados_objects_list_close(rados_list_ctx_t ctx) __attribute__((deprecated))
struct rados_object_list_item
#include <librados.h>

The item populated by rados_object_list in the results array.

Public Members

size_t oid_length

oid length

char *oid

name of the object

size_t nspace_length

namespace length

char *nspace

the object namespace

size_t locator_length

locator length

char *locator

object locator

struct rados_pool_stat_t
#include <librados.h>

Usage information for a pool.

Public Members

uint64_t num_bytes

space used in bytes

uint64_t num_kb

space used in KB

uint64_t num_objects

number of objects in the pool

uint64_t num_object_clones

number of clones of objects

uint64_t num_object_copies

num_objects * num_replicas

uint64_t num_objects_missing_on_primary

number of objects missing on primary

uint64_t num_objects_unfound

number of objects found on no OSDs

uint64_t num_objects_degraded

number of objects replicated fewer times than they should be (but found on at least one OSD)

uint64_t num_rd

number of objects read

uint64_t num_rd_kb

objects read in KB

uint64_t num_wr

number of objects written

uint64_t num_wr_kb

objects written in KB

uint64_t num_user_bytes

bytes originally provided by user

uint64_t compressed_bytes_orig

bytes passed compression

uint64_t compressed_bytes

bytes resulted after compression

uint64_t compressed_bytes_alloc

bytes allocated at storage

struct rados_cluster_stat_t
#include <librados.h>

Cluster-wide usage information

Public Members

uint64_t kb

total device size

uint64_t kb_used

total used

uint64_t kb_avail

total available/free

uint64_t num_objects

number of objects

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