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package org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * A JournalManager is responsible for managing a single place of storing
 * edit logs. It may correspond to multiple files, a backup node, etc.
 * Even when the actual underlying storage is rolled, or failed and restored,
 * each conceptual place of storage corresponds to exactly one instance of
 * this class, which is created when the EditLog is first opened.
 */
interface JournalManager {
  /**
   * Begin writing to a new segment of the log stream, which starts at
   * the given transaction ID.
   */
  EditLogOutputStream startLogSegment(long txId) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Mark the log segment that spans from firstTxId to lastTxId
   * as finalized and complete.
   */
  void finalizeLogSegment(long firstTxId, long lastTxId) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Set the amount of memory that this stream should use to buffer edits
   */
  void setOutputBufferCapacity(int size);

  /**
   * The JournalManager may archive/purge any logs for transactions less than
   * or equal to minImageTxId.
   *
   * @param minTxIdToKeep the earliest txid that must be retained after purging
   *                      old logs
   * @param purger the purging implementation to use
   * @throws IOException if purging fails
   */
  void purgeLogsOlderThan(long minTxIdToKeep)
    throws IOException;

  /**
   * @return an EditLogInputStream that reads from the same log that
   * the edit log is currently writing. May return null if this journal
   * manager does not support this operation.
   */  
  EditLogInputStream getInProgressInputStream(long segmentStartsAtTxId)
    throws IOException;
}