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Fix a few typos I noticed.
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myronmarston committed Nov 16, 2011
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Expand Up @@ -440,11 +440,11 @@ speeding up disk I/O. Note that this can be spoiled when you still have
`atime` enabled on your filesystem because the disk head will have to move to
update both the data blocks and the file and directory meta data blocks. The
primary speed-up from a log-based database is its ability to minimize disk head
seeks. Deleating a value from Bitcask is a two step process. First we append
seeks. Deleting a value from Bitcask is a two step process. First we append
a "tombstone" record to the file open for writes which indicates that a value
was marked for deletion at that time. At the same time we remove references to
that key in the in-memory `keydir` information. Later, during a merge,
non-active non-active data files are scanned and only those values without
non-active data files are scanned and only those values without
tombstones are merged into the active data file. This effectively removes the
obsolete data and reclaims disk space associated with it. This data management
strategy may use up a lot of space over time, since we just write out new
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