oreilly/couchdb-guide — Issue #433: Possibly incorrect info about database header or file footer
Author: pulkitsinghal
Created: 2011-10-08 01:25:25+00:00
State: open

In the following link:
http://couchdb.apache.org/docs/overview.html
It states that:
The updated database header is written in two consecutive, identical chunks to make up the first 4k of the file, and then synchronously flushed to disk.

But in the book draft link here:
http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/btree.html
It instead states that:
Committing is the process of updating the database file to reflect changes. This is done in the file footer, which is the last 4k of the database file.

These two statements seem to be at odds with each other. If I am correct about this, someone needs to step in and set the record straight here!