it is part of the shared pool
whenever a block is transfered out of local cache to another instance's cache grd is updated
it holds the meta data about data blocks, that are availble in DBBC
it holds information like
1.SCN(system change number)
2.DBI(datablock identifier)
3.location of the block
4.mode of the block
1.null (N) - indicates the their are noacess rides on block
2.shared(S) - indicate block is share across the all instance
3.exclusive(E) - access rides only for particular instance
5.role of the block
1.local-date block image present in only one node
2.global-data block image present in multiple nodes
6.types of datablock image
1.current image-update data block value
2.consistent image-previous data block value
2.past image-grd updated image
it convert to current image when instance is crash
grd is depend on ges,gcs services