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by agazso 5440 days ago
If you are writing sequentially, then you can write more than the number of seeks.

And that is exactly what LevelDB is doing: writing a log (sequential), and when the memorychunk is full, it is writing it to disk sorted (this is also sequential).

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flushing the log in an LSM is only kinda sequential, sadly