Definition & Meaning | English word LOG-STRUCTURED

Definitions of LOG-STRUCTURED

1. (computing) Storing data in such a way that modifications are kept in a buffer rather than overwriting the previous version.

Examples of Using LOG-STRUCTURED in a Sentence

• The design rationale for log-structured file systems assumes that most reads will be optimized away by ever-enlarging memory caches.
• Starting in 1990 Sprite was used as the basis for development of the first log-structured file system (LFS), development of which continued until about 1992.
• This inflicts a severe performance penalty, even though the design rationale for log-structured file systems assumes disk reads will mostly be cached away.
• In computer science, the log-structured merge-tree (also known as LSM tree, or LSMT) is a data structure with performance characteristics that make it attractive for providing indexed access to files with high insert volume, such as transactional log data.
• LSFS is a log-structured file system with writable snapshots and inline data deduplication created by StarWind Software.
• NOVA uses log structure, copy-on-write (COW), journaling, and log-structured metadata updates to provide strong atomicity guarantees, and it uses a combination replication, metadata checksums, and RAID 4 parity to protect data and metadata from media errors and software bugs.

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