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Supporting block I/O contexts

Supporting block I/O contexts

Posted Jun 22, 2012 17:32 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
Parent article: Supporting block I/O contexts

This sounds like a case of overgeneralization. There's no way an abstract, undefined concept of "context" of a write (or is it of the data written?) can be useful. They should just have made it (and called it) expiration group.

Separately, an expected lifetime value would help with the placement goals that apparently underly this feature.


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