better readability for data directory tree in storage docs (#5128)

* better readabilty for data dir tree in storage docs

Signed-off-by: geekodour <hrishikeshbman@gmail.com>
pull/5465/head
Hrishikesh Barman 7 years ago committed by Brian Brazil
parent 5be9a1426f
commit 27404e6226
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      docs/storage.md

@ -20,25 +20,26 @@ The block for currently incoming samples is kept in memory and not fully persist
The directory structure of a Prometheus server's data directory will look something like this:
```
./data/01BKGV7JBM69T2G1BGBGM6KB12
./data/01BKGV7JBM69T2G1BGBGM6KB12/meta.json
./data/01BKGTZQ1SYQJTR4PB43C8PD98
./data/01BKGTZQ1SYQJTR4PB43C8PD98/meta.json
./data/01BKGTZQ1SYQJTR4PB43C8PD98/index
./data/01BKGTZQ1SYQJTR4PB43C8PD98/chunks
./data/01BKGTZQ1SYQJTR4PB43C8PD98/chunks/000001
./data/01BKGTZQ1SYQJTR4PB43C8PD98/tombstones
./data/01BKGTZQ1HHWHV8FBJXW1Y3W0K
./data/01BKGTZQ1HHWHV8FBJXW1Y3W0K/meta.json
./data/01BKGV7JC0RY8A6MACW02A2PJD
./data/01BKGV7JC0RY8A6MACW02A2PJD/meta.json
./data/01BKGV7JC0RY8A6MACW02A2PJD/index
./data/01BKGV7JC0RY8A6MACW02A2PJD/chunks
./data/01BKGV7JC0RY8A6MACW02A2PJD/chunks/000001
./data/01BKGV7JC0RY8A6MACW02A2PJD/tombstones
./data/wal/00000000
./data/wal/00000001
./data/wal/00000002
./data
├── 01BKGV7JBM69T2G1BGBGM6KB12
   └── meta.json
├── 01BKGTZQ1SYQJTR4PB43C8PD98
   ├── chunks
   │ └── 000001
   ├── tombstones
   ├── index
   └── meta.json
├── 01BKGTZQ1HHWHV8FBJXW1Y3W0K
   └── meta.json
├── 01BKGV7JC0RY8A6MACW02A2PJD
  ├── chunks
  │ └── 000001
  ├── tombstones
  ├── index
  └── meta.json
└── wal
  ├── 00000002
  └── checkpoint.000001
```
The initial two-hour blocks are eventually compacted into longer blocks in the background.

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