Ann,

I can't express how much this was exactly what I wanted. Thank you! Can this possibly be put up on
ibphoenix, as part of the documentation you have there? It's a slightly more centralized repository
than searching all possible mailing lists, and google doesn't do so well at that anyhow ...

I've been reading filesystem documentation, where similar issues come up, but they don't seem to
have anywhere near the elegance of Interbase/Firebird's algorithm. Especially when you see
filesystems barely journaling metadata changes, and not caring about actual data ...

Again, thank you for taking the time to write all that. Perfectly clear, and exactly what I wanted
to know.

-Philip

---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Ann W. Harrison" <aharrison@...>
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 31 May 2005 12:34:05 -0400
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] careful-write documentation

> unordained wrote:
> > Does anyone have precise documentation on the order and
> > algorithm of careful-write?
>
> Yes - it's the code, except in areas where the code is buggy.
>
> > I've found stuff by Ann and Paul (Beach), but they're kind of vague on
> > some points ...
>
> I specialize in that.
>
> > the write-ahead-log is disabled, in favor of another mechanism I -almost-
> > understand (and even then, only barely for data pages -- what about
> > writing to an index?).
> >
>
> Hope this helps some..
>
> Regards,
>
> Ann

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