BlockManagers

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Detailed Description

The block managers provide a simple block-index based put/get interface for accessing files, memory segments, and the like.

Classes
class	BlockManager
	The base class (pure virtual) of a block manager interface for referencing files or segments as a set of blocks. More...
class	BufferedBlockManager
	The BufferedBlockManager provides the BlockManager, using a FileBlockManager. It provides a thread for background loading of file blocks in response to explicit prefetchBlock() requests and in advance of the actual getBlock() requests for block data. More...
class	FileBlockManager
	The FileBlockManager provides a BlockManager interface by interfacing directly with the filesystem. Often used below a BufferedBlockManager. More...
class	NullBlockManager
	The NullBlockManager by implementation does nothing. Used for performance testing. More...