8 Jan
2019
8 Jan
'19
3:27 a.m.
On Mon, 7 Jan 2019, Warner Losh wrote:
So what's the origin of the name
'strategy' for the I/O routine in Unix
that drivers provide? Everything I've found in the early papers just
says that's what the routine is called. Is there a story behind why it
was chosen? My own theory is that it's in the sense of 'coping strategy'
when the driver needs to service more I/O for the upper layers, but
that's just a WAG.
My guess is that it's supposed to optimise disk access; Ken may know.
-- Dave