Reading a slice

About this task

A slice can be read.

Procedure

  1. The slicename is hashed to determine bin file and bin number.
  2. The bin location is retrieved from in-memory pointers.
  3. The bin is read from disk using said location.

Results

The slice is sent to the IBM Cloud Object Storage Accesser® node for reassembly into an object to be sent to the client system.