Why is it called strategy?

2011-10-18 Thread Emmanuel Dreyfus
As I understand, at VFS level, VOP_STRATEGY(9) is used for I/O to block devices. Where does that name comes from? -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz m...@netbsd.org

Re: Why is it called strategy?

2011-10-18 Thread Eduardo Horvath
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: As I understand, at VFS level, VOP_STRATEGY(9) is used for I/O to block devices. Where does that name comes from? Block devices use the `strategy()' routines to schedule operations because, unlike character devices which typically immediately post