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PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition

by Enrico Pirozzi
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
508 pages
15h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Filesystem crash recovery

Filesystem writes have two major components to them. At the bottom level, you are writing out blocks of data to the disk. In addition, there is some amount of filesystem metadata involved too. Examples of metadata include the directory tree, the list of blocks and attributes associated with each file, and the list of what blocks on disk are free.

Like many disk-oriented activities, filesystems have a very clear performance versus reliability trade-off they need to make. The usual reliability concern is what happens in the situation where you're writing changes to a file and the power goes out in the middle.

Consider the case where you're writing out a new block to a file, one that makes the file bigger (rather than ...

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