For those interested, here are some more references on this sort of thing:

Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems by Bernstein, Hadzilacos and Goodman - http://research.microsoft.com/~philbe/ccontrol/ (downloadable zip/pdf available there)

Recovery in Parallel Database Systems by Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd - http://tinyurl.com/2dku75

Transaction Processing Systems by Krishnamurthy and Murthy - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=131334

Readings in Database Systems by Stonebreaker - http://tinyurl.com/22btgh

and of course

Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques by Gray and Reuter - http://tinyurl.com/ywrx7a