On Oct 18, 2011, at 3:34 55AM, 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?
It's an ancient name -- it appears in http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub///mirrors/minnie.tuhs.org/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Dennis_v3/, which is 3rd Edition Unix that dmr dated to 1973. --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
