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TLOG — Availability status under wrap condition

  • Key: TLOG-36
  • Legacy Issue Number: 2753
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Fujitsu ( Tom Rutt)
  • Summary:

    The AB raised an issue regarding an ambiguity on the proper value
    for the availability status, when the log is in the wrap condition.
    The FTF editor added the following sentence at the top of page 2-12
    of to telecom/99-05-01, in an effort to clarify the AB issue:

    "When a log is full its availability status will change to
    indicate the log full condition. If a log's full action is set to
    'wrap', it will never be in 'full' condition."

    This same ambiguity was discussed the ITU-T group which
    originally wrote the X.735 spec, and their proposed resolution
    has the opposite affect:

    Add the following explanation to the availability status value as a
    separate para after the text discussing wrap event behaviour :

    "The availability status indicates "logfull" when the capacity of
    the log is exceeded. In the case where halt behaviour is
    specified for the log the value implies no more records can be
    added. If wrap behaviour is specified, the value continues to
    remain as log full even though forthcoming records will be added
    by overwriting existing records. The wrap mode combined with
    logfull condition indicates that old records are lost as
    overwriting takes place. If records are deleted from the log, the
    logfull status value is removed from the availability status in
    either halt or wrap mode."

    The reason the ITU group has recommended "full" status is that it
    gives the information that records are being overwritten. When
    the log is full, records will be lost in response to forthcoming
    events. In Halt mode new records are not logged (i.e., lost),
    while in the wrap mode the oldest records are overwritten (i.e.,
    lost). If a client comes and deletes records, then
    availabilitystatus can be reset. Otherwise one needs to have a
    different behaviour for halt and wrap in terms of the value for
    availability status.

  • Reported: TLOG 1.0b1 — Thu, 17 Jun 1999 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — TLOG 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Accept the ITU-T proposal, when in wrap mode, the log is considered to be full.

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:58 GMT