First in a series of patches to implement the new commitlog format.
This patch implements the base format, leaving the transaction payload
generic. Segment handling, writing and reading is implemented based on
an in-memory backend, which greatly simplifies testing.
As a notable deviation from the previous implementation, segments are
never implicitly trimmed. Instead, faulty commits are ignored if and
only if the next commit in the log sequence is valid and has the right
offset. On the write path, this entails closing the active segment when
an (I/O) error occurs, but retaining the commit in memory such that it
is written to the next segment.
Note that this patch does not define the final public API.
Phoebe Goldman