8 Jan
2019
8 Jan
'19
4:28 a.m.
From: Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 16:28:42 -0500
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?
Perhaps from reading the strategy routines of disk device drivers? That's where
disksort() routine to perform HDA seek minimization via elevator sort is called. Still
true in NetBSD today, though some of the routine names have changed. That would seem worth
of being called a "strategy".
Erik Fair