I believe the contents of that folder are installed into a patches folder, and acted upon by the sm-patch utility https://github.com/openstack/stx-ha/blob/master/service-mgmt-tools/sm-tools/... It looks like they populate "V1" tables. Bin should be able to indicate if we still make use of the V1 tables or not. Al From: Liu, Changcheng [mailto:changcheng.liu@intel.com] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2019 10:57 PM To: starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io Subject: [Starlingx-discuss] What is the function of patches directory in StarlingX source code Hi all, What's the function of patches directory in StartlingX source code? For example: cgcs-root/stx/stx-ha/service-mgmt/sm-db-1.0.0/patches/sm_db_ceph_install.patch Regards, Changcheng