Disk Space Management

• Lowest layer of DBMS software manages space on disk.

• Higher levels call upon this layer to:

  • allocate/de-allocate a page
  • read/write a page

• One such “higher level” is the buffer manager, which receives a request to bring a page into memory and then, if needed, requests the disk space layer to read the page into the buffer pool.

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