stored in the cluster, and ensuring that requests are retried or redirected in the event of a node failure or data migration. If an OSD does not respond before a timeout expires, keepalive messages are sent across the lossless, ordered communications channel to ensure that any break in the TCP is discovered. If the session does reset, a reconnection is attempted and affected requests are resent (by the message transport layer). Signed-off-by: Sage Weil Ž