Explain why in a deferred-update system, the system does not first copy the intentions list into the database and then append the commit record to the log.

What will be an ideal response?


Because the intentions list and the update records do not contain before-images. If the system should crash after the database has been updated, but before the commit record has been appended to the log, there would be no way to roll the transaction back.

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