[TUHS] Origin of the name 'strategy'

[Dan Cross]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 4:22 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> 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.
>

I always thought it had to do with computing the optimal strategy for
writing blocks to the disc device....  I wonder where I got that impression
from.  Perhaps reading Bach?

        - Dan C.
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