On 01/22/2014 02:10 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
As Jeff points out, the blocks being modified would be locked until space is freed up. Which could make other users wait. The code required to avoid that wait would be complex and not worth any overhead.
Checkpoint also acquires the content lock of every dirty page in the buffer cache...
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