Design and Implementation of a Transaction-Based Filesystem on FreeBSD
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Transactional database management systems (DBMS’s) have special data integrity requirements that standard filesystems such as the Berkeley Fast Filesystem do not address. This paper briefly describes the requirements a transactional DBMS makes of a transaction-based filesystem, then goes on to describe the design and implementation of such a filesystem, referred to as a block repository1, which is part of the SQRL DBMS project. The implementation of SQRL’s block repository is different than most traditional filesystems in that it is purposely implemented in user-land using raw devices and threads. Its performance is more tunable to the needs of transaction processing than would be the case if it were integrated into the kernel.
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