Writing to Disk Sequentially
Explore how writing updates sequentially to disk forms the foundation of log-structured file systems. Understand the process of writing data blocks and metadata like inodes to improve disk performance and optimize storage persistence.
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We thus have our first challenge: how do we transform all updates to the file-system state into a series of sequential writes to disk? To understand this better, let’s use a simple example. Imagine we are writing a data block ...