Lecture

Buffer Management and Page Layout

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This lecture covers the anatomy of a magnetic disk, cache organization, access times, file organizations, buffer management in a DBMS, and page layout. It explains the different file organizations like heap files, sorted files, and log-structured files, detailing their advantages and disadvantages. The instructor also discusses buffer management strategies, such as buffer replacement policies like LRU and Clock, and the N-ary Storage Model for page layout.

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