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From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 38, Issue 10
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 07:58:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfrRZfv4Ok6uLN-3Q_HXTcJ19GWcrbcn38qf3hhdoQOrAw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <966501A7-7736-4EB0-841A-C1516C876272@quintile.net>

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On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:44 AM Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

>
> re disk stagey
> i understood that this implemented the elevator algorithm, and possible
> rotational latency compensation.
>

I know what it does. I want to know why that specific name was selected.

Warner

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-08 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.5.1546912802.21858.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2019-01-08 10:15 ` Steve Simon
2019-01-08 11:00   ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2019-01-08 14:58   ` Warner Losh [this message]
2019-01-09  2:10     ` Dave Horsfall
2019-01-09  4:23       ` Warner Losh
2019-01-09 19:13         ` Christian Barthel
2019-01-09  5:19       ` Bakul Shah
2019-01-09  5:45         ` Warner Losh
2019-01-09 15:09           ` Bakul Shah

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