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A Virtual Log

 

Eager writing allows a high degree of location independence of data. It also presents two challenges: how to locate data as its physical location can constantly change, and how to recover this location information after a failure. In this section, we explain the rationale behind the design of the virtual log and the file systems built on it.





Randolph Wang
Tue Jan 5 14:30:32 PST 1999