RE: Reusing deleted records

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 03:41 PM 9/29/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I know I am kind of late here, but what happens when program 2 reuses a
>deleted record that also exists in program 1's "stale" deleted records
>map.  Will program 1 reuse the same deleted record that program 2 used
>(thereby over writing the data put out by program2)?  And wouldn't that
>open up a can of worms<g>?
>
>
When program 1 goes to add a record that has already been reused, the
system has an "internal write error", updates it's own deleted record map
for that RR#, and goes and tries the next one.  The performance while
trying to catch up is degraded.

Al




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