They Said It, January 2006

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Metaphor Mix

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from Andrew's talk...

queue

file

write

writeback

dirty

block

memory

thread

page

cache

throttle (verb)

flush

IO

data, metadata

block

inspect

polling

fold

handle

process

mark

map(verb)

path

swap cache push read write read control pin pinned in memory.

my general postitino. AS shouodl have no catastropbically bad failure modes. it may not be the best at any particulr workload, but it must never be bad.