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A short history of btrfs

A short history of btrfs

Posted Aug 4, 2009 15:41 UTC (Tue) by topher (guest, #2223)
In reply to: A short history of btrfs by alkby
Parent article: A short history of btrfs

Some database rows will be updated, and most DBMS do that in-place.
This is actually incorrect. There are almost no databases that actually do that anymore. All modern (decent) databases will create a new row when performing an update, and then mark the old row as deleted internally. This is significantly safer, performs better, and allows you to support other important transactional features.


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