disk_index_partition header and cpp #47
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Create some basic scaffolding for disk_index_partition class and header
No implementations of any methods included yet
Right now we are thinking of the following
Methods
read_from_disk(): Reads a partition into memorywrite_to_disk(): Flush a partition to diskrellocate_disk(): If we need to make any changes to the backing fileMember variables
file_handler: Either a string that points to the backing file on disk or something more sophisticated like a file handler class for this partitionis_in_memory: Flag that tracks if this partition is currently resident in memory