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\psetnum{5}
\date{2004/02/17}

\begin{pset}
  The data page is written synchronously because changes to file data
  are not logged. Thus, when a new file is created, its data page must
  be written immediately. If it were not, the file metadata might be
  written to disk before the initial data page. This would lead to
  invalid data (possibly data from whatever file the page had been
  previously allocated to) being present in the file content, which
  would not be desirable.
\end{pset}

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