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Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origin of the name 'strategy'
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>From: Dan Cross <crossd@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