Handed out: Saturday, October 16, 2004
Due: Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Read:
Soft Updates
To help you prepare for class, you should answer the following question about the assigned paper about soft updates.
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Explain how soft updates avoids the circular dependencies that are explained in section 3.1 and illustrated in figure 1 and 2.
Based on your explanation, sketch out the pseudocode for the module
that flushes dirty cache blocks to disk. You don't have to consider
all types of disk blocks; feel free to pick your favorite one.
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Assignment: Nothing to hand in.