On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:22:51PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> So you want it to say >> >> sda: synchronizing disk cache >> >> instead of >> >> sda: synchronizing SCSI cache >> >> I don't really see that buying us anything in terms of clarity. What's >> the actual problem it solves? > > Indeed. > > And we can argue for weeks about English text, too. Non-disk devices > like SSDs have caches too, so I'd say "SCSI cache" is more accurate than > "disk cache". But maybe "SCSI writeback cache" would be even better. "drive cache" works better (and avoids the whole disc/disk discussion too) -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
