[ot][spam][crazy] Fiction: Index Trees for Random-Access Data on Append-Only Storage

Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many gmkarl at gmail.com
Sun Jul 17 14:42:00 PDT 2022


1: "Okay, so FlushRegion is a class for edges of a linked list,
roughly. Each Flush Index is a length of them. FlushRegion sits
between nodes, which are either writes of data, or terminators."

4: "There's been some confusion as to whether FlushRegion should be
made of ChunkRange's, or entire Flush Indexes, or what. The confusion
has been complicated by ideas around refactoring the Flush Index and
changing the name of Flush.Entry to ChunkRange. We propose filling
FlushRegion with ChunkRanges, because it is simpler to consider,
involving fewer new concepts, new names, and new connections between
concepts."


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