On 5/31/2013 8:19 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2013-06-01, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Today "HDD" can mean either mechanical hard disk drive or SSD. To easily >> differentiate, it has become commonplace to refer to mechanical hard >> drives simply as "rust" because it's quicker to type and universally >> understood. If this is the first time you're seeing this term that's a >> bit surprising. > > I think this is the only list I've ever seen "rust" used in this way. Then I'd guess you're not subbed to other storage specific lists, such as linux-scsi, linux-ide, xfs, etc. Obviously not everyone uses this jargon, but it's becoming much more common. I've been using it myself for quite some time. Some people use "SRD" as well meaning "spinning rusty disk". You'll commonly see "array of rust", "rusty RAID6", "SRD array", etc. "rust" is here to stay. Get used to it. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
